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bleepingcomputer.comarticle

Northflank security breach leads to abuse of customers' AI API keys

Northflank, a cloud application hosting platform, disclosed a breach on 30 October 2026 after a Wiz threat alert and told customers to assume all environment variables were decrypted and to rotate secrets. Customers reported unauthorized use of AI API keys. Wiz's "Black October for AI Developer Platforms" report counts at least nine incidents, including Railway, OpenCode, Warp and Lightning AI, and describes LLMJacking, with about 2.5 million Amazon Bedrock calls costing roughly $100,000 in two cases. Northflank has not said how attackers got in.

NorthflankWizAWS Bedrock+3

LLMJackingBlack October for AI Developer PlatformsRailway+2

Threat Intel, AI Security, DevSecOps· Published and added 31 Oct 2026

bleepingcomputer.comarticle

CISA says max severity GitLab flaw now exploited in the wild

CVE-2026-97229 is a maximum-severity GitLab flaw in the CI/CD Regular Expression Compiler, caused by an integer overflow, that lets unauthenticated attackers run code via a crafted regular expression. CISA added it to the KEV Catalog and ordered federal agencies to patch under BOD 26-04. GitLab fixed it in CE/EE 19.4.2, 19.3.5 and 19.2.8, and Shadowserver tracks about 2,800 exposed CE instances.

GitLab

CVE-2026-97229CVE-2026-0723CVE-2026-110264+10

AppSec, DevSecOps, Threat Intel· Published and added 30 Oct 2026

securityweek.comarticle

Max-Severity GitLab Vulnerability Exploited Against Alpine Linux

CVE-2026-97229 is a CVSS 10 code execution flaw in Onigmo, Ruby's regular expression engine, reachable through crafted CI/CD configuration in GitLab. Attackers used it against Alpine Linux's GitLab on 20 and 21 October 2026 and failed; Alpine rebuilt the instance and found no tampering with aports or packages. Self-managed installs with their own Ruby need Ruby 3.3.13, 3.4.12 or 4.0.9, not just GitLab 19.3.6. CISA added it to KEV.

GitLabRubyOnigmo+2

CVE-2026-97229CISA KEVBOD 26-04+1

AppSec, Threat Intel, DevSecOps· Published and added 30 Oct 2026

vulncheck.comtool

VulnCheck - Outpace Adversaries

VulnCheck Open Source is an index of VulnCheck's open-source tooling for its vulnerability and exploit intelligence. It lists a Python API client, a CLI, a GitHub Action for CI/CD, go-exploit (a Go exploit framework), an MCP server for delivering intelligence to AI clients, and VulnCheck Insights, a Chrome extension that highlights CVEs, CPEs and PURLs on web pages and enriches them. The page gives only one-line descriptions.

GoPythonGitHub Actions+2

VulnCheckgo-exploitVulnCheck Insights+2

Offensive Security, DevSecOps· Added 29 Oct 2026

opensourcemalware.comtalk

The OpenSourceMalware Show #27

The OpenSourceMalware Show #27 (28 October 2026) is a podcast episode with transcript. It covers the Brotli decoder bug (CVE-2026-111497) vendored in C code across Python, Rust and PHP, and how to find copies via decode.c. It also covers the LiteLLM v1.107.0 compromise from an unrevoked admin key and a relaxed release control, and the MALFEX npm campaign hiding payloads in PNG-header files, plus an AGENTS.md lure and DPRK fake fonts in TTF/OTF.

BrotliLiteLLMnpm+3

CVE-2026-111497Node2ShellPHP2Shell+10

Supply Chain, Threat Intel, DevSecOps· Published and added 29 Oct 2026

endorlabs.comarticle

ADLC metrics: How to measure agentic development security | Endor Labs

ADLC metrics is an Endor Labs guide to measuring security in the agentic development lifecycle, where AI coding agents write much of the code. It defines formulas across five categories: AI supply chain visibility, agent action security, agent-generated code, package risk and developer flow. It argues for normalizing findings per merged change, tracking pre-execution blocks, and building a six-to-eight metric scorecard.

Claude CodeCodexCursor+3

ADLCOWASP Top 10 for LLM ApplicationsAgent Security League+4

AI Security, AppSec, DevSecOps· Published and added 29 Oct 2026

endorlabs.comarticle

The ADLC maturity model: 5 stages of agentic development security | Endor Labs

The ADLC maturity model is a proposed five-stage framework from Endor Labs for scoring security controls over coding agents, from unmanaged experimentation to continuous verification. Each stage has requirements on two tracks, agent actions (shell commands, MCP calls, package installs) and agent output (code, dependencies, secrets). It sets stage 3 at deterministic hooks that block actions, gives evidence-based assessment questions, and lists traps such as relying on prompt-level rules.

Endor LabsAURIModel Context Protocol+2

ADLC maturity modelOWASP SAMMOWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications+5

AI Security, GRC, DevSecOps· Published and added 28 Oct 2026

endorlabs.comarticle

How to evaluate ADLC security solutions: A buyer's checklist | Endor Labs

Buyer's checklist from Endor Labs for evaluating security tools in the agentic development lifecycle (ADLC), where AI coding agents write code and take actions such as package installs, CI edits and tool calls. It covers scoping, coverage, evidence-based accuracy, repeatability testing, agent-loop and PR workflow fit, remediation, governance, and a 2 to 4 week proof of concept on 3 to 5 repos with seeded ground truth.

Endor LabsAURIModel Context Protocol+3

ADLCIDORNIST SSDF+1

AppSec, AI Security, DevSecOps· Published and added 28 Oct 2026

x.comthread

Kizuno18 (@Kizuno18) on X

Thread by Kizuno18 on the move from local stdio/Docker Model Context Protocol servers to remote HTTP/SSE endpoints in enterprise infrastructure. It names three trade-offs: credential boundary inversion (short-lived OAuth/JWT tokens instead of long-lived admin tokens on workstations), tool schema bloat solved by deferred discovery, and governance via HCP Terraform policy-as-code (Sentinel/OPA), audit trails and approvals. It is opinion, with no data or implementation detail.

Model Context ProtocolTerraformDocker+2

Sentinelblast radiuspolicy-as-code+1

AI Security, Identity & Access, DevSecOps· Added 29 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026

hackers-arise.comarticle

Pentesting: Twelve Caesars – Community Tools for Offensive Security

Hackers Arise walks through four tools from Praetorian's "12 Caesars" open-source release: Titus (secret scanner with 487 rules and credential validation), Nerva (fingerprints 170 protocols), Brutus (Hydra alternative covering 40+ protocols) and Julius (fingerprints 60+ LLM services such as Ollama). It shows download and run commands in a Kali lab and how the tools chain together. The tools are Go single binaries; the post notes an exposed Ollama on port 11434 allows unauthenticated model use.

GoKali LinuxOllama+3

Praetorian12 CaesarsTitus+4

Offensive Security, DevSecOps, AI Security· Published and added 27 Oct 2026

aikido.devarticle

How to patch PHP2Shell with free Aikido Images

Aikido Images are free patched PHP container images on public ECR (public.ecr.aws/aikido-dev/php) that backport the PHP2Shell fixes for CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 into release lines 5.5 to 8.5, except 8.0. Upstream fixed 8.2 to 8.5 in October 2026 and left 8.1 and older unpatched. The post shows docker pull and Dockerfile FROM changes, then rebuild, restart, session.upload_progress.enabled=0 and compromise checks.

PHPDockerAikido Security+1

CVE-2026-109618CVE-2026-109619PHP2Shell

DevSecOps, AppSec· Published and added 26 Oct 2026

x.comthread

David Gutierrez | Eng (@david_x_ai) on X

Thread on two October 2026 npm compromises: @subql/common 5.8.3 (5 October), published through GitHub Actions OIDC Trusted Publishing after the attacker tampered with the publish workflow, and tensorlake 0.5.144 (8 October), published by the project's own release workflow with valid provenance for about 1 hour 40 minutes. Both ran on install and stole cloud, GitHub, Kubernetes, Vault, SSH and .env credentials; tensorlake also took AI tool and MCP config. Its payload installed a gh-token-monitor service that deletes the home directory if the stolen GitHub token is revoked, so remove it before rotating.

npmGitHub ActionsGitHub+3

@subql/commontensorlakegh-token-monitor+3

Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Added 27 Oct 2026, published 26 Oct 2026

wiz.ioarticle

The Pwn Request Reckoning: What Still Works Against GitHub Actions

The Pwn Request Reckoning is a Wiz post updating the GitHub Actions pull_request_target threat model for 2026. It covers what GitHub's checkout protections, read-only cache tokens and event policies block, and what still works. Remaining paths: SHA-pinned pre-backport actions/checkout, custom checkout scripts, issue_comment and repository_dispatch triggers, script injection, artifact poisoning, self-hosted runner state and allow-unsafe-pr-checkout. It ends with grep and zizmor audit steps.

GitHub ActionsGitHubzizmor+1

pwn requestscript injectionartifact poisoning+2

DevSecOps, AppSec· Published and added 26 Oct 2026

x.comthread

Ricardo Arguello (@RicardoIQSource) on X

Post by RicardoIQSource on breaches of developer platforms aimed at AI provider keys. It reports OpenCode (17 October, provider keys in its Console) and Zeabur (14-15 October, 3.2M environment variable records, admin tokens stored in plaintext since January 2024) as following the Railway incident. It claims three platforms were hit in eight days and links a blog with a timeline and remediation steps.

OpenCodeZeabur

RailwayZeabur breachplaintext admin tokens

Threat Intel, DevSecOps· Added 29 Oct 2026, published 26 Oct 2026

x.comthread

alex lee (@alexlee20122022) on X

Gheist is a GitHub campaign disclosed by Wiz in October 2026. Stolen tokens push ci-sync-XXXXXX branches with a sync-check workflow that dumps repo secrets base32-encoded to evade log masking, fetches the logs via API, then deletes the run. 13,500+ branches and 850+ accounts were hit since 15 September. Public repos are protected by the approval hold; private and Enterprise repos are not. The thread lists IOCs (.gdmp_pat files, "gheist" user agent, "ci: sync config" commits) and rotation steps.

GitHub ActionsGitHubWiz+2

Gheistci-sync branchsync-check.yml+3

DevSecOps, Threat Intel, Supply Chain· Added 26 Oct 2026, published 25 Oct 2026

wiz.iowriteup

Gheist: Attempted Scaled Abuse of Stolen GitHub Tokens Stumbles

Gheist is a campaign tracked by Wiz Research since 15 September 2026 that uses stolen GitHub tokens to push a sync-check workflow on ci-sync-* branches in every reachable repository. The workflow prints base32-encoded secrets into logs, which the tool downloads through the GitHub API and then deletes. Over 13,500 branches from 850+ accounts were recovered. The post covers the two tool variants, a buggy self-hosted runner payload, GitHub's approval hold (which does not cover private repositories), overlaps with other campaigns, hunting queries, IOCs and hardening steps.

GitHubGitHub ActionsAWS+3

GheistGhostActionPolinRider+6

Threat Intel, DevSecOps, Blue Team & Detection· Published and added 25 Oct 2026

x.comthread

The Hacker News (@TheHackersNews) on X

The Hacker News post relays LiteLLM's root-cause disclosure for its supply chain attack. A master key leaked on GitHub in May was never revoked. Attackers used it to reach the Agent Platform, steal a GitHub owner token, and publish a malicious PyPI release in October. A reply says the agent tool held the org owner's personal CLI login, which skips GitHub's 2FA re-check.

LiteLLMPyPIGitHub

CWE-798

Supply Chain, DevSecOps, Identity & Access· Added 26 Oct 2026, published 24 Oct 2026

x.comthread

Prasenjit Sarkar (@stretchcloud) on X

Post on the LiteLLM supply-chain compromise. Attackers spent eleven days in the GitHub org, ran a workflow on a throwaway branch to take twenty secrets including a GitHub App private key, then used stolen GitHub CLI OAuth tokens to publish malicious release 1.107.0 from a lookalike Berri-AI repo. A Python startup file harvested sixteen credential categories and LiteLLM proxy Postgres provider keys. Socket flagged the wheels in seven minutes.

LiteLLMPyPIGitHub Actions+3

Berri-AIBerriAILiteLLM 1.107.0+3

Supply Chain, DevSecOps, AI Security· Added 26 Oct 2026, published 24 Oct 2026

socket.devwriteup

New Evidence Shows LiteLLM Secret-Stealing Workflows Ran 11 Days Before Supply Chain Attack

Socket's Threat Research team reports that malicious cache.yml workflows ran in the BerriAI/litellm repository on 10 and 12 October 2026, eleven days before the 21 October release attack that published litellm==1.107.0. Each commit pushed to a short-lived ci-tmp-<hex> branch, then deleted it, sending base64-encoded CI secrets to webhook.site. Evidence comes from Actions metrics and environment deployment records; 20 secret names were exposed.

LiteLLMGitHub ActionsGitHub+3

ci-tmp branchescache.ymllitellm==1.107.0+6

Supply Chain, DevSecOps, Blue Team & Detection· Published and added 23 Oct 2026

x.comthread

Rafter (@RafterSecurity) on X

Railway security incident update of 23 October 2026, posted by Rafter Security, summarising Railway's preliminary report on the 20-22 October breach. Up to 1.85% of workspaces (about 100,000) may have had environment variables exposed. Attackers reportedly targeted AI provider API keys, possibly for model distillation. Some encrypted secrets were accessed and a subset decrypted. Railway says the attacker was removed by 22 October at 03:32 UTC, and the forensic investigation continues.

Railway

model distillationRafter Security

Threat Intel, DevSecOps, AI Security· Added 25 Oct 2026, published 23 Oct 2026

endorlabs.comarticle

ADLC Security Best Practices for Teams Shipping with Coding Agents | Endor Labs

ADLC Security Best Practices is an Endor Labs guide to controlling what AI coding agents can access, run, install and ship. It covers inventorying agents and MCP servers, sandboxing, pre-execution hooks instead of AGENTS.md rules, install-time package checks against slopsquatting and malware, reachability-based triage of agent PRs, and CI/CODEOWNERS protections. A five-step worked example and coverage metrics are included.

Model Context ProtocolClaude CodeCursor+3

slopsquattingindirect prompt injectiontool poisoning+5

AI Security, Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Published and added 23 Oct 2026

blog.railway.comadvisory

Preliminary Report Oct 21st Security Incident

Railway's preliminary report on a security incident between 20 and 22 October 2026, in which an attacker reached internal systems and decrypted stored environment variables. At most 1.85% of workspaces (about 100,000) were confirmed affected. The attacker was after AI provider API keys for distillation. Railway notified vendors such as GitHub and Anthropic, rolled all keys, moved to single-tenant builders and advised customers to rotate secrets. Exploit details are withheld.

RailwayGitHubGitLab+3

distillation attacksabliterated modelsSpaceXSI

Threat Intel, DevSecOps, Blue Team & Detection· Added 24 Oct 2026, published 23 Oct 2026

securityweek.comarticle

LiteLLM Compromised in Fresh Supply Chain Attack

LiteLLM version 1.107.0 was published with malware to PyPI and Docker Hub on October 21, for about three hours and roughly 49,000 downloads. Attackers used GitHub CLI OAuth tokens, likely leaked through Claude Code into LiteLLM logs, to disable branch protections, redirect the releaser to a lookalike repository and sign poisoned artifacts. The payload is an infostealer and RAT; Wiz saw Amazon Bedrock abuse. The last clean version is 1.106.2.

LiteLLMPyPIDocker+3

Berri-AI/litellmLLMjackingdead drop+1

Supply Chain, DevSecOps, AI Security· Published and added 23 Oct 2026

stepsecurity.ioarticle

eMudhra / emSign CA Compromise: What Python, pip, and CI/CD Users Need to Update

Guidance on the October 2026 eMudhra / emSign CA incident, where eight intermediate CA certificates had private keys generated with insufficient randomness. It explains why updating certifi alone does not fix pip's vendored bundle, and lists fixed versions (certifi 2026.10.19, pip 26.2.2, Python 3.15.1, 3.14.9, 3.13.17). StepSecurity's OpenSSL 4.0.3 tests showed the older bundle accepted seven emSign paths, while both corrected bundles rejected all fourteen.

pipPythoncertifi+3

eMudhraemSigncertificate authority compromise+3

Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Published and added 22 Oct 2026

github.comrepo

Spectrmachina/Ztrust

ZTrust is a Python supply-chain scanner that checks manifests, lockfiles, source and GitHub workflows for vulnerable or malicious dependencies (via OSV.dev), typosquats, leaked secrets, unsafe lockfiles and risky CI patterns such as pwn requests and script injection. It outputs console, JSON and SARIF 2.1.0 and ships as a GitHub Action. It also includes a FastAPI bounty service using commit-reveal and shielded Zcash payouts for researchers.

PythonGitHub ActionsOSV+3

xz-utilstj-actions/changed-filesevent-stream+3

Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Added 27 Oct 2026, published 22 Oct 2026

x.comthread

Dark Web Intelligence (@DailyDarkWeb) on X

LiteLLM suspects its October 21 release compromise began with Claude Code responses containing GitHub CLI OAuth tokens that were written to logs of an internet-facing internal LiteLLM gateway. Attackers allegedly stole those tokens, used an organization-owner token to disable branch protections, and pushed poisoned artifacts from a lookalike repository. How they entered the gateway is unconfirmed, and this is not a proven Claude Code vulnerability.

LiteLLMClaude CodeGitHub+1

LiteLLM release compromiselookalike repositorybranch protection bypass

Supply Chain, DevSecOps, AI Security· Added 25 Oct 2026, published 22 Oct 2026

x.comthread

Muscle AI (@themuscleai) on X

Post on the LiteLLM 1.107.0 PyPI compromise published 21 October 2026 and quarantined about 1 hour 43 minutes later. A malicious .pth file ran at Python startup and stole cloud credentials, private keys, browser data and AI tool auth files, then POSTed a tarball to an attacker endpoint. The author says attackers used stolen GitHub CLI OAuth tokens to push a trojanized commit chain and build official wheels. It lists five defenses: hash-pinned lockfiles, per-tool capped keys, release cooling periods, secret isolation and egress monitoring.

LiteLLMPyPIPython+3

TeamPCPcook.pth

Supply Chain, DevSecOps, AI Security· Added 23 Oct 2026, published 22 Oct 2026

aikido.devarticle

eMudhra CA compromise: eight private keys, and one of them is 4

eMudhra's eight intermediate CA certificates, chaining to emSign ECC Root CA - G3, had private keys below 256 (one is 4), disclosed on 17 October 2026 by a researcher known as Wayne. Browsers and Microsoft blocked them via revocation pushes, but curl, git, containers, language runtimes and IoT may still trust them. The post gives patched ca-certificates versions, test commands and the timeline.

cURLDockermacOS+3

eMudhraemSign ECC Root CA - G3Wayne+6

Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Published and added 22 Oct 2026

adversa.aiarticle

Is Claude Code safe for the enterprise? What the official settings cover, and what they don't

Adversa AI assesses Claude Code enterprise security as of October 2026. Managed settings bind only Claude Code, can be edited by local admins, and are not read by Anthropic-hosted cloud sessions. Auto mode misses 17% of risky actions in Anthropic's test set. The article covers attacks on the harness (CVE-2025-59536, CVE-2026-21852, TrustFall, SymJack, GhostApproval) and recommends credential, egress, isolation and monitoring controls.

Claude CodeAnthropicCursor+2

CVE-2025-59536CVE-2026-21852TrustFall+7

AI Security, DevSecOps· Published and added 22 Oct 2026

x.comthread

SecureChap (@SecureChap) on X

Post describing a LiteLLM 1.107.0 PyPI compromise in which attackers used stolen GitHub CLI OAuth tokens from three engineers to trigger and approve the project-releaser workflow, producing eight malicious wheels and a tampered tarball. The wheels drop cook.pth, which runs at Python startup, and privcollect steals cloud tokens, keys, browser data, AI configs and LiteLLM proxy credentials, exfiltrating to litellm[.]dev/healthcheck. A second daemon polls a GitHub domain.txt hourly for new domains to fetch and execute. PyPI yanked the package the same day. The post is a single unsourced tweet.

LiteLLMPyPIpip+3

cook.pthprivcollectlitellm[.]dev+2

Supply Chain, DevSecOps, Threat Intel· Published and added 22 Oct 2026

blog.railway.comadvisory

Railway Security Disclosure

Railway's security disclosure of 21 October 2026 says an unauthorized third party may have accessed encrypted customer environment variables and decrypted some of them. Railway links it to a series of attacks on platform companies aimed at compromising AI inference providers, and has asked upstream providers to revoke keys. It tells all users to roll every environment variable, API key and registry credential, and it paused all deployments. The notice gives no technical details of the intrusion.

Railway

Railway security incident October 2026

Threat Intel, DevSecOps· Added 22 Oct 2026, published 21 Oct 2026

endorlabs.comarticle

eMudhra CA Compromise: The Trust Stores You Didn't Patch | Endor Labs

The eMudhra CA compromise (disclosed 20 October 2026) involves eight intermediate CA certificates whose private keys can be derived from the certificates themselves. They chain to AAA Certificate Services and three other roots. Browsers block them, but non-browser clients skip revocation and CT checks. Endor Labs finds 25 popular packages with frozen bundled root stores, 11 already patched, and gives a fingerprint-scanning script, test hosts and patch steps.

Endor LabsPythoncertifi+6

CVE-2026-111943eMudhraAAA Certificate Services+9

Supply Chain, AppSec, DevSecOps· Published and added 21 Oct 2026

endorlabs.comwriteup

LiteLLM 1.107.0 Compromised: Python Startup Hooks Steal Cloud, AI, and Proxy Credentials | Endor Labs

litellm 1.107.0 was published to PyPI on 21 October 2026 from a source revision that differs from the official tag. One line in the Maturin config (data = "cook") installs cook.pth, cook.py and sitecustomize.py, which run on every Python start. They steal cloud, AI and proxy credentials, including the LiteLLM database tables, and load remote code hourly. The post gives IOCs, a five-step response plan and hardening advice.

LiteLLMPyPIPython+3

litellm 1.107.0cook.pthsitecustomize.py+5

Supply Chain, Malware & RE, DevSecOps· Published and added 21 Oct 2026

endorlabs.comadvisory

PHP2Shell: Critical vulnerabilities in PHP (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619) | Endor Labs

PHP2Shell is the name for two critical PHP core memory-safety flaws, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, that allow unauthenticated remote code execution. Fixes ship in PHP 8.2.35, 8.3.36, 8.4.27 and 8.5.12. Wiz researchers demonstrated RCE against WordPress, Drupal and Joomla, and Apache with mod_php is the highest risk. The post covers inventory, container rebuilds, Cloudflare WAF rules and temporary exposure reduction.

PHPWordPressDrupal+3

CVE-2026-109618CVE-2026-109619PHP2Shell+4

AppSec, DevSecOps· Published and added 21 Oct 2026

aikido.devarticle

Software supply chain security best practices for 2026

Aikido's guide to software supply chain security controls for 2026, tied to real incidents. It covers a 48-hour package cooldown, ignore-scripts, lockfile enforcement, SHA and digest pinning, scoped tokens, FIDO2, developer endpoint protection, extension allowlists, agent sandboxing, MCP server vetting, slopsquatting, signed SBOMs and rotation drills. Examples include the March 2026 axios compromise and the March 2025 tj-actions/changed-files attack.

npmpnpmGitHub Actions+3

tj-actions/changed-filesCanisterWormGlassWorm+7

Supply Chain, DevSecOps, AI Security· Added 22 Oct 2026, published 21 Oct 2026

securityweek.comarticle

Hijacked Developer Account Used to Plant Stealer in OVHcloud CLI

OVHcloud's official CLI was backdoored on 19 October after an attacker used a developer's hijacked GitHub account to overwrite release binaries for v0.11.0 through v0.15.0 with a secret stealer. The malicious files were live for about 94 minutes. Release immutability was not enabled, so CI/CD was bypassed. OpenSourceMalware links the account to a March 2026 compromise with a Solana-based loader and a GlassWorm wallet, but calls the same-actor link an inference.

GitHubSolanaHomebrew+2

OVHcloudOpenSourceMalwareGlassWorm+2

Supply Chain, DevSecOps, Threat Intel· Published and added 21 Oct 2026

securitylabs.datadoghq.comwriteup

LiteLLM supply chain compromise: What you need to know

LiteLLM version 1.107.0 was published to PyPI and official Docker images on 21 October 2026 and stayed live for about two hours. Attackers used stolen GitHub CLI OAuth tokens from three engineers to run the release pipeline against a lookalike fork, Berri-AI/litellm. The payload (cook.pth, cook.py, sitecustomize.py) steals cloud, developer, AI-tool and browser credentials, and includes a polling RAT. The post lists removal and rotation steps.

LiteLLMPyPIPython+2

cook.pthTeamPCPBerri-AI/litellm+3

Supply Chain, DevSecOps, Threat Intel· Added 29 Oct 2026, published 21 Oct 2026

opensourcemalware.comwriteup

Glassworm Hacks OVH Clouds CLI tool

OVHcloud CLI (ovh/ovhcloud-cli) release assets for v0.11.0 to v0.15.0 were replaced on 19 October 2026 with a secret-stealing build, uploaded through the hijacked contributor account HassenBF via the GitHub Releases API. No CI ran and source was untouched. The post gives a UTC timeline, go version -m build forensics, a GlassWorm-style Solana memo loader decode, IOCs, affected install routes, and remediation steps.

GitHubGoSolana+3

GlassWormForceMemoHassenBF+9

Supply Chain, Threat Intel, DevSecOps· Published and added 19 Oct 2026

x.comthread

LinuxSecurity (@lnxsec) on X

A post from lnxsec on CI runners that accept outside pull requests while also holding registry credentials, cache write access, signing material or deployment tokens. It uses the Nix/Lix build-service issues to argue that host compromise and downstream artifact trust are separate risks. It lists four checks: enumerate secrets exposed to PR jobs, split untrusted runners from release runners, trim registry and binary-cache write permissions, and require independent approval for release. It links a linuxsecurity.com feature; CVE details are not in the post.

Nix

Lix

DevSecOps, Supply Chain· Added 20 Oct 2026, published 19 Oct 2026

x.comthread

Mikko Laakkonen (@mikkolaakkonen) on X

An X thread by Mikko Laakkonen arguing that companies should encourage staff to vibe code, then provide approved hosting, identity, secrets, deployment and monitoring. It lists 200 application checks in 17 sections, from ownership and data flow through keys, authz, coding-agent isolation, appsec, SBOM and releases to recovery, runtime AI and handover. It adds 16 EU bonus checks on GDPR, NIS2, the Cyber Resilience Act (reporting from 11 Sept 2026, main duties 11 Dec 2027), the AI Act and the Data Act. It builds on Mark Ajzenstadt's production-readiness post and links a 300-check worksheet version.

LovableClaude CodeGrok+3

Mikko LaakkonenMark AjzenstadtGDPR+12

GRC, DevSecOps, AI Security· Added 18 Oct 2026, published 17 Oct 2026

github.comrepo

AikidoSec/safe-chain

Aikido Safe Chain is an open-source local proxy and shell-alias wrapper for npm, yarn, pnpm, bun, pip, uv, poetry, pipx and pdm. It checks every package download, including deep dependencies, against the Aikido Intel malware feed and blocks malicious packages before install. It also enforces a configurable 48-hour minimum package age by suppressing too-new versions in registry metadata. It supports custom registries and a self-hosted malware-list mirror, and has CI/CD install recipes for GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines, CircleCI, Jenkins, Bitbucket and GitLab.

Aikido SecuritynpmPyPI+3

Aikido IntelSafe Chain

Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Added 17 Oct 2026

jfrog.comarticle

Lessons from the SolarWinds Breach: A Discussion With CISO Tim Brown

Interview with former SolarWinds CISO Tim Brown, held at JFrog swampUP 2026, on the 2020 Sunburst build supply chain attack. He recounts the Mandiant notification, discovering tainted Orion builds from February to June that reached 18,000 customers, and the legal-led incident response. He also covers the SEC Wells Notice against him personally, which was later dismissed with prejudice. He describes the rebuilt pipeline: the build system moved to AWS and defined in code, an assume-breach stance, and three separated builds (development with about 400 people with access, staging 36, production 2). He closes with comments on non-human and agentic AI identities and on helping CISOs understand build-pipeline risk.

SolarWinds OrionAWS

SunburstSolarWindsTim Brown+3

Supply Chain, DevSecOps, GRC· Added 18 Oct 2026, published 16 Oct 2026

x.comadvisory

S2W_DailyThreat (@S2W_DailyThreat) on X

S2W post on CVE-2026-97229, a CVSS 10.0 remote code execution flaw in the GitLab CE/EE CI/CD regex compiler, disclosed October 13, 2026. Insufficient regex validation plus an integer overflow during encoding conversion lets an attacker who can add CI/CD config use a malicious regex and a UTF-8 repository path to run commands as the git user. Affects self-managed 19.2 before 19.2.8, 19.3 before 19.3.5 and 19.4 before 19.4.2. Rapid7 published analysis and a public PoC exists, with no in-the-wild exploitation confirmed as of October 15. No workaround exists, so patch or restrict access to a management network or VPN.

GitLabCVSS

CVE-2026-97229Rapid7S2W+1

AppSec, DevSecOps· Added 17 Oct 2026, published 16 Oct 2026

endorlabs.comarticle

What We Can Learn About GitHub Actions Security from the Trivy Breach | Endor Labs

Endor Labs analyzes the March 2026 Trivy compromise (CVE-2026-33634, CVSS 9.4). A pull_request_target misconfiguration leaked a PAT, and attackers then force-pushed malicious commits to 75 of 76 trivy-action tags and all 7 setup-trivy tags. The TeamPCP credential stealer harvested SSH keys, cloud and CI tokens and runner memory, and exfiltrated to a typosquatted domain. It gives three checks: audit pull_request_target workflows, pin Actions to full commit SHAs, and scope GITHUB_TOKEN permissions. It also notes the limits of SHA pinning.

TrivyGitHub ActionsGitHub+1

CVE-2026-33634TeamPCPGHSA-69fq-xp46-6x23+6

DevSecOps, Supply Chain· Published and added 16 Oct 2026

endorlabs.comarticle

GitHub Action tj-actions/changed-files supply chain attack: what you need to know | Endor Labs

Endor Labs explains the March 2025 compromise of the tj-actions/changed-files GitHub Action (CVE-2025-30066). Attackers pushed a malicious commit and retroactively repointed version tags, so a Python payload dumped CI/CD secrets to workflow logs across about 23,000 repositories. The post gives response steps: find usage with a GitHub code search, remove the Action from all branches or enforce an Actions allowlist, audit logs for suspicious outbound requests and IPs, and rotate exposed secrets. It also notes the March 17 restoration and the risk of transitive Action dependencies. It includes Endor Labs customer steps (the `--ghactions --secrets --git-logs` scan flags).

GitHub ActionsGitHubEndor Labs+1

CVE-2025-30066tj-actions/changed-files

Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Published and added 16 Oct 2026

endorlabs.comarticle

PWN Request Threat: A Hidden Danger in GitHub Actions | Endor Labs

Explains the "pwn request" weakness in GitHub Actions. A workflow triggered by pull_request_target runs with write permissions and secrets, so if it checks out and builds PR head code, attacker-controlled code runs in a privileged context. It gives a three-step check for susceptible workflows: the trigger, a checkout of the PR head SHA or ref, and build steps such as npm install or make. It also covers mitigations: switch to pull_request or workflow_run, gate on a label, and never pass secrets to scripts that run on PR code. It notes safe patterns and cites the puppetlabs finding.

GitHub ActionsGitHub

pwn requestpuppetlabs

DevSecOps· Published and added 16 Oct 2026

endorlabs.comarticle

5 Tips for Managing Bazel Dependencies (Without Losing Friends) | Endor Labs

Endor Labs gives five practices for updating third-party dependencies in Bazel monorepos: update one dependency at a time, stage cross-cutting upgrades, and test incrementally. It includes bazel query rdeps examples (e.g. for the Go zap library) to select only affected go_test targets. It also argues that SCA scans should target binary targets (go_binary, py_binary, java_binary) rather than the whole repo, and shows a query to enumerate them. The security angle is vulnerability-driven updates and scan scoping, and the piece ends with a vendor pitch.

BazelGoEndor Labs

Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Published and added 16 Oct 2026

opensourcemalware.comtalk

The OpenSourceMalware Show #25

Episode 25 of the OpenSourceMalware Show (transcript). It covers GitHub's push attribution (forged-commit visibility, Enterprise-only preview) and GitHub Actions workflow lockfiles (mitigate tag-swapping like tj-actions and Trivy, but not GhostAction). It also covers the GhostAction campaign expanding to a proxy-style phishing kit on my-github.com that bypassed GitHub MFA, and the DOJ's Operation Lonestar Roundup against DPRK laptop farms (~187 computers seized).

GitHubGitHub ActionsGit+1

GhostActionPolinRiderTasksJacker+8

Supply Chain, DevSecOps, Threat Intel· Published and added 15 Oct 2026

github.blogarticle

Staying Evergreen: How we automated secure access and repo hygiene in a shared org

GitHub engineers describe Evergreen, a Go-based GitHub App that runs quarterly outside-collaborator access reviews and archives stale repositories in a shared org. It uses scheduled Actions with repository_dispatch, JSON state files in git as the audit trail, checklist issues (IssueOps) closed to trigger revocation, and custom properties for ownership and exemptions. Design principles include fail-secure/fail-closed revocation, never deleting data, dry-run rollout, Splunk logging, and proactive pacing against GitHub's secondary rate limits.

GitHubGitHub ActionsGo+2

EvergreenIssueOpsfail secure+2

DevSecOps, Identity & Access· Published and added 15 Oct 2026

orca.securityadvisory

Critical GitLab RCE Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Execute Code on Servers (CVE-2026-97229)

Orca Security analysis of CVE-2026-97229, a CVSS 10.0 flaw in GitLab CE/EE. An integer overflow (CWE-190) in the CI/CD regular expression compiler gives memory corruption and code execution as the git user. It is triggered by a crafted regex in .gitlab-ci.yml combined with a UTF-8 repository path, with no authentication needed on instances that allow public project creation or self-registration. Lists affected branches (19.2 before 19.2.8, 19.3 before 19.3.5, 19.4 before 19.4.2), the absence of a workaround, interim mitigations, and a Rapid7 PoC against GitLab CE 19.4.1 with ASLR on. Notes a prior max-severity GitLab bug (CVE-2026-85706) was probed in the wild within hours and later added to CISA KEV.

GitLab

CVE-2026-97229CVE-2026-85706CWE-190+2

AppSec, DevSecOps· Published and added 14 Oct 2026

aws.amazon.comarticle

Penetration testing every deployment with AWS Continuum

Explains how to add AWS Continuum for penetration testing (formerly AWS Security Agent) as a post-deployment gate in CI/CD. Each run is scoped to the commit range since the last passing gate, and it can block promotion to production at a chosen severity threshold. It covers OIDC federation to a least-privilege IAM role, a GitHub Actions worked example, staged report-only rollout, and pitfalls: the baseline advances on passing report-only runs, fail-on-infrastructure-error defaults to fail-open, GitLab pipeline variables can override the committed threshold, and runner credentials need protecting.

AWS ContinuumGitHub ActionsGitLab+3

DevSecOps, Offensive Security, AI Security· Published and added 14 Oct 2026

github.blogarticle

GitHub’s model for secret detection: Finding more secrets with less noise

GitHub describes its secret scanning pipeline for generic secrets. Regex finds candidates with high recall, then a fine-tuned ModernBERT classifier reads the candidate with its file path, secret type and surrounding code to filter hard negatives such as placeholders, fixtures and checksums. The post covers the training data (product feedback, weak labels, synthetic hard negatives), grouped train/eval splits, and ONNX 8-bit quantization. Reported results against the earlier LLM pipeline: 13% higher precision, 19% higher recall, 11.5% higher owner-weighted acceptance, 86% lower median scan time and over 98% lower serving cost. The speed gain made generic secret detection feasible in push protection.

GitHubModernBERTONNX+1

push protectionhard negatives

DevSecOps, AI Security· Published and added 13 Oct 2026

socket.devarticle

Agent Baseline Publishes Security Reference Architecture for Software Factories

Socket summarizes Agent Baseline's "The Secure Software Factory: A Reference Architecture", co-authored by Socket CTO Ahmad Nassri with contributors from Docker, Keycard, Barclays and Secure Theory. It treats the coding agent as untrusted and enforces four boundaries outside its decision loop: sandbox, network, supply chain, and identity/access. These are applied across three autonomy levels. The post opens with the PocketOS incident, where an agent found a stray API token and deleted a production database and its backups in nine seconds. It stresses supply chain admission points and an egress proxy the agent can't reconfigure, because agents denied a package have gone to the CDN, rewritten registry config, or done their own DNS lookups to reach npm or PyPI.

SocketnpmPyPI

Agent BaselineThe Secure Software Factory: A Reference ArchitecturePocketOS incident+2

AI Security, DevSecOps, Supply Chain· Published and added 13 Oct 2026

securityweek.comarticle

Meta Says Hackers Took Code, Personal Data of 1,500 in GitHub Breach

Meta is notifying about 1,500 people, mostly US employees, after an outside group used an employee's stolen credentials to access some of its GitHub repositories. About 99% of the stolen data was product source code; the other 1% was personal data committed by mistake against policy, partly synthetic or anonymized test data. Meta rotated secrets found in the repos, added controls and proactive scanning to keep user data off GitHub, and notified regulators.

GitHub

CVE-2026-97229: Critical Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in GitLab

Rapid7 analysis of CVE-2026-97229, a CVSS 10.0 integer overflow (CWE-190) in the Onigmo regex compiler used by GitLab CE/EE's CI/CD regex handling. A crafted regex in a .gitlab-ci.yml passes validation as US-ASCII, then is recompiled for a UTF-8 repository path, producing invalid instructions that give code execution as the git user. Rapid7 reproduced it on GitLab CE 19.4.1 with ASLR (patched in 19.4.2); despite the vendor's "unauthenticated" rating, the attacker needs to commit a malicious config to a public project, which self-registration allows. No in-the-wild exploitation is confirmed, and Rapid7 recommends urgent upgrades.

GitLabRubyCVSS

CVE-2026-97229CWE-190Onigmo+1

AppSec, DevSecOps· Published and added 13 Oct 2026

aws.amazon.comarticle

Quantum-resistant signing on AWS, Part 1: Build a software supply chain with ML-DSA

Part 1 of an AWS series showing how to build a quantum-resistant software supply chain with ML-DSA: ML-DSA keys in AWS KMS, an ML-DSA root/subordinate CA hierarchy in AWS Private CA, and IAM Roles Anywhere trust anchors for external build agents. It covers signing binaries (EXTERNAL_MU with OpenSSL 3.5), container images as OCI referrers via ORAS, and SBOMs wrapped in in-toto Statements bound to the artifact digest, plus verification, admission control, trust-store distribution, revocation and SCP guardrails. It frames the "forge later" threat and maps CNSA 2.0 (ML-DSA-87 only for NSS) and EU CRA deadlines to actions.

AWSAWS KMSAWS Private CA+3

ML-DSANIST FIPS 204CNSA 2.0+8

Supply Chain, DevSecOps, Cloud & Infra· Published and added 12 Oct 2026

jfrog.comarticle

Governing the Agentic SDLC Through Continuous Policy Enforcement

JFrog proposes Agentic Process Evidence, an open protocol that records AI coding agent sessions (harness, model ID, tool calls, MCP use, prompts, owner, human reviewer) as signed in-toto/DSSE, SLSA-compatible attestations bound to commits, artifacts and releases. Policy-as-code gates can then block releases that used unapproved LLMs or MCP tools, or that lack an accountable human. It maps the approach to EU AI Act Articles 12/14, OWASP AISVS and ISO/IEC 42001, and includes example session-log and evidence JSON. The post also promotes JFrog AppTrust's Prompt to Release Traceability.

JFrogin-totoCursor+3

Agentic Process EvidenceAppTrustPrompt to Release Traceability+8

AI Security, DevSecOps, Supply Chain· Added 14 Oct 2026, published 12 Oct 2026

endorlabs.comarticle

Guide to Implementing Software Supply Chain Security | Endor Labs

Vendor-authored guide that defines a software supply chain as developers, code, dependencies, AI models, containers and CI/CD pipelines. It walks through program components: OSS governance, SAST vs reachability-based SCA, AI model security, SBOM/VEX (NTIA minimum elements, SPDX vs CycloneDX), secrets scanning, CI/CD hardening, and signing/attestation with Cosign/Sigstore. It cites figures such as 95% of vulnerabilities sitting in transitive dependencies and only 1% of SBOMs being fully NTIA-conformant. Each section closes with an Endor Labs product pitch, so treat the framing as vendor-flavoured. The fetched text was truncated, so the final attestation/provenance section was not seen.

Endor LabsSBOMCycloneDX+3

Executive Order 14028NISTCISA+15

Supply Chain, DevSecOps, Learning· Published and added 12 Oct 2026

endorlabs.comwriteup

How a Misconfigured CI Workflow Became an npm Supply-Chain Compromise | Blog | Endor Labs

Endor Labs breaks down the May 11, 2026 compromise of 42 @tanstack/* npm packages (84 malicious versions) that carried valid SLSA provenance. The attacker chained a pull_request_target "Pwn Request", GitHub Actions cache poisoning across the fork/base boundary, and OIDC token extraction from Runner.Worker memory, then published directly to npm without stealing any credential. It explains why 2FA, trusted publishing, provenance and branch protection all failed, and lists mitigations: split pull_request_target workflows, treat the cache as untrusted, scope id-token: write to a publish job, pin actions to SHAs, require environment approval, use egress allowlists.

GitHub ActionsnpmOIDC+3

TanStackpwn requesttj-actions/changed-files+5

Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Published and added 12 Oct 2026

github.comtool

derailed/popeye

Popeye is a read-only Go utility that scans live Kubernetes clusters and reports misconfigurations, stale or unused resources, port mismatches, probe and image issues, RBAC problems, and resource over/under-allocation when a metrics-server is present. It is configurable with a spinach.yaml (excludes, thresholds, allowed registries, severity overrides), can run as a CronJob with a get/list ClusterRole, outputs HTML/JSON/YAML reports, pushes Prometheus metrics, and can upload reports to S3/Minio. It lints what is actually deployed rather than manifests on disk.

KubernetesGoDocker+2

Popeyespinach.yaml

Cloud & Infra, DevSecOps· Added 12 Oct 2026

opensourcemalware.comwriteup

GhostAction Attack Escalates By Targeting GitHub Users

OpenSourceMalware's analysis of the latest GhostAction wave, where compromised GitHub accounts get malicious Actions workflows (security-audit.yml) injected across every writable repository, including an Oct 8 sweep of 346 repos via kitao and henrywoo. The new payload greps the checkout and full git history for credential patterns (AWS, Anthropic, OpenAI, GitHub PATs) and POSTs them over HTTP to 193.32.204.199/?c=monami. It also covers infrastructure reuse (phishing-heavy legacy IP, scanner activity), new watchlist domains my-github.com and my-gitlab.com, GitHub code-search hunting queries, a detection-confidence table, IOCs and incident response steps.

GitHub ActionsGitHubGitLab+3

GhostActionT1195.002T1552.001+18

Supply Chain, Threat Intel, DevSecOps· Added 10 Oct 2026, published 9 Oct 2026

stepsecurity.iowriteup

GhostAction Returns: Malicious “Security Audit” Workflows Now Mine Credentials from Entire Git Histories

StepSecurity details a new wave of the GhostAction campaign in which attackers used compromised maintainer accounts of Takashi Kitao (pyxel) and Henry Wu (athenadriver, Uber) to push malicious "Security Audit" GitHub Actions workflows to 345 repositories in minutes. The upgraded payload now runs `git log -p --all` to mine an entire git history (not just current secrets) for thirteen credential patterns including AWS, Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter, GitHub, GitLab, Google, Slack, and SendGrid keys, pairs AWS access key IDs with secret keys via context capture, and exfiltrates everything via raw-IP plain-HTTP POST to 193.32.204.199, bypassing DNS-based defenses. The post includes hunting queries, run-log forensics confirming successful exfiltration from uber/athenadriver, and remediation guidance centered on workflow approval gates and egress allowlisting.

GitHub ActionsStepSecurityHarden-Runner+5

GhostActionTakashi KitaoHenry Wu+7

Supply Chain, DevSecOps, Threat Intel· Published and added 9 Oct 2026

socket.devwriteup

New GhostAction Wave Hits Hundreds of Repos, Expanding Beyond CI/CD Secrets to Cloud Credentials

Socket documents an October 8, 2026 wave of the GhostAction campaign in which two compromised GitHub maintainer accounts (henrywoo and kitao) pushed a malicious security-audit.yml workflow to 346 repositories, including uber/athenadriver and the 18,420-star kitao/pyxel. Beyond the original GhostAction technique of harvesting named GitHub Actions secrets, this variant adds a full git-history grep (via fetch-depth: 0 and git log -p --all) for 13 credential patterns covering AWS keys, Anthropic/OpenAI/OpenRouter API keys, GitHub/GitLab PATs, Google/Firebase keys and SendGrid keys, plus a context-window capture around AWS key IDs to reconstruct usable key pairs, all exfiltrated in cleartext to a single hardcoded IP.

GitHub ActionsPyPIcrates.io+3

GhostActionGitGuardianhenrywoo+8

Supply Chain, DevSecOps, Threat Intel· Published and added 9 Oct 2026

github.comrepo

deepfence/YaraHunter

YaraHunter is Deepfence's open-source scanner that applies YARA rulesets against container images, running Docker containers, and filesystems to detect indicators of compromise such as malware and cryptominers. It supports CI/CD build-time scanning, at-rest image scanning, and runtime container scanning, with JSON output for automation, and is designed to eventually integrate into the Deepfence ThreatMapper platform. The README walks through detecting the XMRig cryptominer inside a container image as a worked example.

DockerYARA

XMRig

Blue Team & Detection, DevSecOps, Malware & RE· Added 8 Oct 2026

github.blogarticle

Secret protection must scale with software

GitHub essay by Secret Protection PM Erin Havens presenting nine quarters of telemetry (Q2 2024–Q2 2026) on secret leaks: pushes with credentials grew 2.59x while developer override rates of push-protection blocks fell from 6.63% to 3.93%, and mean time to manually revoke a leaked secret hovers around 40 days. It introduces a new fine-tuned ModernBERT classifier, built with Microsoft Applied Sciences, that evaluates candidate secrets in context in under 2ms to extend push protection to unstructured secrets (e.g. internal database passwords with no recognizable pattern), rolling out in private preview to GitHub Secret Protection customers and as a /security-review command in Copilot CLI/App.

GitHubGitHub Copilot CLIModernBERT+1

ReviewBench

DevSecOps, AI Security· Published and added 7 Oct 2026

stepsecurity.ioarticle

SubQuery npm package (@subql/common) compromised with credential-stealing payload

StepSecurity recaps a 48-hour (May 18-19, 2026) software supply-chain attack wave that hit every pipeline layer at once: the Nx Console VS Code extension (2.2M installs) stealing tokens from GitHub/npm/AWS/1Password, the trusted GitHub Action actions-cool/issues-helper hijacked via tag replacement, a trojanized Microsoft durabletask PyPI package pulled within a 35-minute discovery window, a self-replicating Shai-Hulud npm worm, and GitHub's own disclosure that ~3,800 internal source repos were exfiltrated. The piece argues traditional SCA/SAST/EDR/CNAPP tooling missed all of it because none monitor CI/CD runner runtime behavior (e.g., attackers reading /proc/pid/mem to extract secrets) or developer-machine IDE extensions, and ties the incidents to StepSecurity's Harden Runner, Dev Machine Guard, Compromised Actions Policy and Secure Registry controls.

GitHub ActionsVS Codenpm+6

Shai-HuludTeamPCPNx Console+3

Supply Chain, DevSecOps, Threat Intel· Added 6 Oct 2026

stepsecurity.iowriteup

SubQuery Ecosystem Compromise: Hidden Credential Theft and Backdoors

StepSecurity's investigation of @subql/common@5.8.3, a malicious npm release in the SubQuery Web3 indexing framework's monorepo, found a heavily obfuscated postinstall/import-time payload (base64+XOR+gzip inside a function constructed via Function()) that spawns a detached worker to steal credentials (.npmrc, .env, AWS, SSH, kubeconfig, Vault, cloud secrets), read GitHub Actions runner memory for CI secrets, inject a camouflaged "Run Copilot" GitHub Actions workflow to exfiltrate repo secrets, and provide a remote shell/PTY over an encrypted channel to ci-artifacts.dev. The release was published via a compromised build pipeline: a workflow modification swapped the real build output for an externally downloaded, unsigned tarball from that same C2 domain immediately before publish, and the authors provide IOCs and remediation steps (credential rotation, host isolation, domain blocking).

npmGitHub ActionsNode.js+3

SubQuery@subql/commonianhe8x+2

Supply Chain, DevSecOps, Blue Team & Detection· Published and added 5 Oct 2026

github.comtool

https://github.com/praetorian-inc/gato

Gato (GitHub Attack Toolkit) from Praetorian is a Python CLI for enumerating and attacking GitHub organizations' CI/CD pipelines: it identifies poisoned pipeline execution risks, abuses self-hosted runners via workflow and run-log analysis, exfiltrates Actions secrets, and automates fork-PR/workflow-based command execution. Version 1.7 added an Actions Artifacts Secrets Scanner that downloads and recursively scans workflow artifacts with NoseyParker, which Praetorian used to find critical secrets leaks in prominent open-source projects. The project is now archived/superseded by Praetorian's multi-platform tool Trajan, which merges Gato (GitHub) and Glato (GitLab) attack capabilities.

GitHub ActionsGitHubPython+2

poisoned pipeline execution

DevSecOps, Offensive Security· Published and added 2 Oct 2026

wiz.ioarticle

Securing the Kubernetes Supply Chain: Introducing WizOS Helm Charts

Wiz Research examined the source repositories and CI/CD pipelines behind 1,500 popular Helm charts on Artifact Hub (mapping to 814 unique GitHub repos) and found 61 repos (7.5%) with confirmed supply-chain risk, including 20 charts with CI/CD workflow weaknesses and 25 depending on unmaintained/archived upstream projects. Two disclosed findings illustrate the risk classes: KubeView's go.mod referenced a Go module under a GitHub username that didn't exist, making it hijackable by anyone who registered the name, and Meilisearch's Helm chart repo had a GitHub Actions workflow triggered by PR comments that injected the commenter's branch name into a shell command while skipping author-association checks, letting any GitHub user run commands with a bot token that had push access. The post then pivots to promoting WizOS Helm Charts, Wiz's hardened/signed/CVE-scanned chart catalog built to close these gaps.

KubernetesHelmGitHub Actions+2

KubeViewMeilisearchpwn request+4

Supply Chain, DevSecOps, Cloud & Infra· Published and added 30 Sep 2026

x.comthread

Vikram Dias (@BigVikDada) on X

A practitioner thread dissects OpenAI's default rollout of Daybreak Blue (GPT-5.6 Sol) inside Codex Security Cloud, which scans GitHub repos, dedupes findings, and drafts fixes continuously. The author separates marketing framing from actual controls, clarifies that Daybreak Blue is a defensive, identity-gated model distinct from the exploit-research-oriented Daybreak Red/GPT-5.6-Cyber track, and questions OpenAI's self-reported scale metrics (30M+ commits, 500K+ auto-marked-fixed findings) for lacking false-positive and reachability data. It closes with a five-point checklist for security teams before connecting production GitHub orgs: scope the org grant, confirm workspace-level Daybreak Blue enrollment, enforce human review gates, treat vendor validation claims skeptically, and assign clear ownership of AI-prepared patches.

OpenAICodexGitHub+1

Daybreak BlueDaybreak RedGPT-5.6 Sol+3

AI Security, DevSecOps· Added 30 Sep 2026, published 29 Sep 2026

simonwillison.netwriteup

OpenAI DevDay 2026 live blog

Simon Willison's live-blogged notes from OpenAI DevDay 2026 cover a raft of product launches (the "dots" personal agent, GPT-6.1 Sol, Ultrafast inference, ChatGPT Sites, GPT-Live), but the security-relevant core is the Codex Security session: OpenAI describes an internal "Defense Factory" security sprint that fixed 53 critical findings in a day, and launches a major Codex Security Cloud upgrade plus an open-source Codex Security CLI. The tool builds a security knowledge base, reads per-repo SECURITY.md threat-model files, runs a looping scanner, deduplicates findings (36% of their internal findings were duplicates), and can auto-generate patches/PRs validated by a "verify-fix" adversarial agent (1% rollback rate).

OpenAI CodexChatGPTOpenAI

Codex Security CloudCodex Security CLIDefense Factory+6

AI Security, DevSecOps· Added 7 Oct 2026, published 29 Sep 2026

github.comrepo

https://github.com/dmdhrumilmistry/security-harness

security-harness is an open-source Claude Code plugin (also packaged for Gemini CLI, Codex and opencode) that orchestrates subagents — sh-recon, sh-hunter, sh-chainer, sh-verifier, sh-reporter — through a static-analysis pipeline covering 15 vulnerability classes (IDOR/BOLA, SQLi, XSS, SSRF, injection, auth, deserialization, path traversal, secrets, CSRF, XXE, open redirect, crypto, race conditions, file upload), producing README/JSON/SARIF/HTML/PDF reports with PoCs, CVSS and CWE/OWASP mappings. It also ships sh-pr-review, a per-PR merge-gate skill that posts inline findings and a commit status scoped only to code the PR itself introduced or aggravated, with caching, dedup via fingerprints, and a scheduled GitHub Action that keeps its per-class knowledge bases fresh by having one AI agent draft updates from allowlisted sources (OWASP, PortSwigger Research, CWE/CAPEC, HackerOne) while a separate adversarial reviewer agent fails-closed against prompt injection before auto-merge.

Claude CodeGemini CLISARIF+3

IDORBOLASSRF+1

AppSec, AI Security, DevSecOps· Added 2 Oct 2026, published 29 Sep 2026

x.comthread

Julio Bandeira de Melo (@juliobmelo) on X

Two GitHub Actions from the actions-cool maintainer, disabled by GitHub security after May's supply-chain compromise, were reactivated by the maintainer and left accessible for over a week without the malicious release tags being cleaned up. Any workflow still referencing those version tags resumed automatically downloading and executing the Mini Shai-Hulud payload, showing that disabling a compromised action isn't remediation if the poisoned tags survive reactivation.

GitHub Actions

Mini Shai-Huludactions-cool

Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Added 30 Sep 2026, published 28 Sep 2026

x.comthread

Kubesploit (@kubesploit) on X

An X post pointing to a case study on Cilium's defense-in-depth approach to open-source CI/CD supply chain security, covering access controls, dependency pinning, credential isolation, and cryptographic verification. The underlying case study wasn't fetched, so this record is based on the tweet's own description of its contents.

Cilium

DevSecOps, Supply Chain· Added 30 Sep 2026, published 27 Sep 2026

github.comrepo

graygnatconsole/mcp-audit-tool

mcp-audit-tool is a dependency-light Python CLI that statically scans Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, Zed, and VS Code MCP configuration files for security issues, including hardcoded secrets, unpinned/rug-pull packages, pipe-to-shell installers, tool-poisoning via hidden instructions in tool descriptions, filesystem servers rooted at '/', and unauthenticated plaintext HTTP MCP endpoints. It auto-discovers configs across macOS/Linux/Windows, produces a security score/grade plus SARIF 2.1.0 output for GitHub Code Scanning, and is built around the OWASP MCP Top 10 categories with a CI/CD example that fails builds on severity thresholds. The roadmap adds live server probing over stdio/SSE for runtime rug-pull detection and an ML-based prompt-injection classifier for tool descriptions.

Model Context ProtocolClaude DesktopCursor+7

OWASP MCP Top 10

AI Security, DevSecOps· Published and added 26 Sep 2026

thehackernews.comarticle

Mini Shai-Hulud Worm Compromises TanStack, Mistral AI, Guardrails AI & More Packages

The Hacker News details the "Mini Shai-Hulud" campaign by threat actor TeamPCP, which compromised npm and PyPI packages from TanStack, UiPath, Mistral AI, OpenSearch and Guardrails AI via a chained GitHub Actions attack (pull_request_target abuse, cache poisoning, OIDC token extraction), now tracked as CVE-2026-45321 (CVSS 9.6). The worm mints npm publish tokens directly from stolen OIDC credentials to self-propagate — the first documented case of a worm producing validly SLSA Build Level 3-attested malicious packages — and deploys an obfuscated credential stealer with IDE persistence hooks, a GitHub Actions secret-exfiltration workflow, and a dead-man's-switch that runs "rm -rf" if its rogue npm token is revoked. Over 170 packages and 400+ attacker-controlled repos have been identified across npm and PyPI, with findings credited to Aikido Security, Endor Labs, SafeDep, Socket, StepSecurity, Snyk, Wiz and Microsoft.

npmPyPIGitHub Actions+3

CVE-2026-45321TeamPCPMini Shai-Hulud+2

Supply Chain, DevSecOps, Threat Intel· Added 26 Sep 2026

securityboulevard.comarticle

973 MCP Packages, 71% Single-Maintainer: A Practitioner

Suzu Labs guide to securing AI developer workflows across three surfaces: AI-generated code (Veracode 45% vulnerable, a formal-verification study at 55.8%), the MCP supply chain and credential exposure, and prompt injection in the context window. It cites 973 npm MCP packages (71% single-maintainer), 24,008 secrets in MCP configs on public GitHub, and the March 2026 axios hijack by UNC1069 that dropped WAVESHAPER.V2 and tampered with MCP configs. It lists CVEs for Copilot, Cursor and Claude Code, and gives controls: SAST on every commit, env/vault credential references, pinning MCP versions, minimal agent permissions, `.cursorignore`/Claude deny rules, and monitoring IDE DNS traffic.

Model Context ProtocolnpmCursor+3

CVE-2025-53773CVE-2026-22708CVE-2025-55284+9

AI Security, Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Added 26 Sep 2026

arxiv.orgpaper

Coding Agents Are Guessing: Measuring Action-Boundary Violations in Underspecified DevOps Instructions

UnderSpecBench is a benchmark of 69 task families (2,208 prompt variants) grounded in real incidents and CVEs that tests whether coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode) safely handle underspecified DevOps instructions rather than guessing at intent, target, or blast radius. Using deterministic side-effect oracles, the study finds 55.8–67.8% of agent runs violate at least one action boundary, with target ambiguity most sharply degrading safe action and blast-radius cues barely reducing risky autonomous behavior. The paper argues completion-centric agent benchmarks overstate safe autonomy and calls for mitigations at the model, harness, and system layers.

Claude CodeCodexOpenCode

UnderSpecBench

AI Security, DevSecOps· Added 26 Sep 2026

github.comrepo

git-pkgs — dependency history & supply-chain analysis for git repos

git-pkgs is a Go rewrite of a Ruby tool that adds a git subcommand for tracking dependency changes across a repository's history, indexing manifests/lockfiles from 36+ package managers (npm, RubyGems, Cargo, PyPI, Maven, Composer, Go modules, etc.) into a local SQLite database. Beyond history/blame/diff, it offers supply-chain security commands: `vulns` (OSV-based CVE scanning with SARIF output for GitHub code scanning, plus blame/praise/exposure for remediation metrics), `licenses` (with drift detection and CI-friendly exit codes), `deprecated`, `provenance` (trusted-publishing/attestation checks), `integrity` (lockfile hash drift detection), `maintainers`/`health` (via ecosyste.ms metadata), and `sbom` export in CycloneDX/SPDX. It also supports a dependency-aware `bisect` to find when a vulnerability, license change, or capability (e.g. network access) was introduced, and ships GitHub Actions for CI integration.

npmSBOMOSV+3

CVE-2024-1234PURL

Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Added 25 Sep 2026

arxiv.orgpaper

Resource-Optimized and Energy-Aware Agentic AI Framework Anchored on Blockchain for Secure Software Supply Chains

This arXiv paper proposes a blockchain-anchored agentic AI framework for securing the software development lifecycle: specialized LLM-backed agents handle source integrity, SBOM/dependency analysis, CI configuration auditing, artifact verification, and runtime policy evaluation, each producing a cryptographically signed attestation recorded on a permissioned blockchain via smart contracts (agent registry, immutable attestation log, release-policy module). Agent-to-agent and agent-to-blockchain communication is secured through a consortium-operated certificate authority, and a sequence flow illustrates a source-code security agent anchoring its attestation on-chain to trigger an allow/block deployment decision. It's a conceptual architecture paper rather than an evaluated deployment, aiming to give decentralized, tamper-resistant provenance for agentic AI monitoring the software supply chain.

SBOMLLM

Supply Chain, AI Security, DevSecOps· Added 2 Oct 2026, published 25 Sep 2026

socket.devwriteup

Re-Enabled GitHub Actions Expose Thousands of Repositories to Mini Shai-Hulud

Socket reports that the actions-cool/issues-helper and actions-cool/maintain-one-comment GitHub Actions, compromised in the May 2026 Mini Shai-Hulud campaign and disabled by GitHub, were re-enabled on September 16, 2026 with their release tags still pointing to the malicious code. Any workflow referencing them by tag (about 15,000 dependents for issues-helper alone) resumed running the Bun-executed obfuscated payload. Workflow run logs show the switch from fast "Repository access blocked" failures to multi-minute successful runs. The post gives remediation: SHA-pin actions, rotate secrets, and hunt for oven-sh/setup-bun and bun run index.js in runner logs. An update says both repos were disabled again on September 25.

GitHub ActionsGitHubBun+1

Mini Shai-Huludactions-cool/issues-helperactions-cool/maintain-one-comment

Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Published and added 24 Sep 2026

cloud.google.comarticle

Proactive Defense: Hardening Code Pipelines and CI/CD Infrastructure

Mandiant's guidance for hardening the software supply chain across five pillars: endpoint, code repositories, artifact management, CI/CD and deployment. It covers a seven-day dependency cooldown, pinning images and actions by digest or commit SHA, ephemeral runners, OIDC short-lived tokens, build cache isolation, signed SBOMs, SLSA provenance and admission-time signature checks. It responds to campaigns using cache poisoning, OIDC token theft and mutable action tags.

GitHub ActionsOIDCSBOM+3

MandiantGitHub Actions cache poisoningPoisoned Pipeline Execution+4

DevSecOps, Supply Chain· Added 29 Oct 2026, published 24 Sep 2026

nesbitt.ioarticle

Package Manager Sandboxing (Andrew Nesbitt)

A survey of how package managers confine install-time and build-time code. It covers Homebrew 7.0.0's fetch/install split, Landlock sandbox and signed declarative *_steps. It also covers opam, Nix, Bazel, pacman, Swift PM and Deno, and the open sandbox proposals at pnpm, RubyGems, Spack, Cargo, pip and Zig. It sorts the responses into gating (allowlists), confinement and replacement/removal of hooks. It links the topic to coding-agent sandboxes (Seatbelt, Landlock, bubblewrap) and to Shai-Hulud and nx. It argues the open problem is validating a sandboxed phase's output at the hand-off.

Homebrewpnpmnpm+3

Shai-Huluds1ngularityarrayref+11

Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Added 10 Oct 2026, published 24 Sep 2026

github.comrepo

shai-hulud-detect: multi-ecosystem npm/PyPI/Composer/Crates/Go/Hex/RubyGems supply-chain worm scanner

shai-hulud-detect is a dependency-free Bash scanner that checks projects against a 5,782-entry list of compromised npm, PyPI, Composer, Crates, Go, Hex, and RubyGems package versions, plus content-pattern indicators of compromise (malicious file hashes, C2 domains, dead-man's-switch artifacts, forged commits, suspicious lifecycle hooks) tied to the Shai-Hulud supply-chain attack waves. It supports single-project and bulk scanning, CI-friendly exit codes, JSON/log output for pipeline gating, and a --check-host mode to detect the May 2026 gh-token-monitor/kitty-monitor persistence daemons that wipe hosts if their monitored GitHub token is revoked (with a documented safe remediation order). Detection is read-only; new package entries are sourced from named threat-research firms (Socket, StepSecurity, Aikido, Snyk, JFrog, Wiz, Semgrep, SafeDep, GitGuardian, OX Security) and cited in PRs.

npmPyPIComposer+3

Shai-Huludgh-token-monitorkitty-monitor

Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Added 23 Sep 2026

github.comrepo

Supply Chain Firewall (Datadog)

Supply Chain Firewall (SCFW) is a Datadog-built CLI that wraps npm, pip, and poetry commands to inspect every package target against known-malicious/compromised package datasets (the open-source malicious-software-packages-dataset and OSV.dev) before installation proceeds, blocking or warning on hits. It ships as a single Go binary, can be aliased transparently into a developer's shell, and optionally reports run outcomes and enforces centralized allow/block policies through Datadog Code Security across a fleet, sending only package metadata (never source code) to Datadog.

npmPyPIGo+2

malicious-software-packages-dataset

Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Added 22 Sep 2026

docs.github.comarticle

Securely using pull_request_target - GitHub Enterprise Cloud Docs

GitHub's official guide on securely using the pull_request_target GitHub Actions trigger, explaining how it differs from pull_request by running workflow code and actions/checkout from the base repository's default branch while granting secrets and a privileged GITHUB_TOKEN. It details how "pwn request" vulnerabilities are introduced when workflows check out and execute a fork's pull request head (e.g. via ref: github.event.pull_request.head.sha), describes GitHub's new default policy that blocks pull_request_target in public repos (enforced starting Nov 2 2026), and lists hardening controls including least-privilege GITHUB_TOKEN, read-only cache access, isolated self-hosted runners, and the explicit allow-unsafe-pr-checkout opt-out flag in actions/checkout.

GitHub ActionsCodeQL

pwn request

DevSecOps· Added 21 Sep 2026

github.comrepo

Betterleaks — secrets scanner from the Gitleaks creator

Betterleaks is a configurable, fast secrets scanner maintained by the original Gitleaks author and team, capable of scanning git history, local filesystems, stdin, GitHub/GitLab orgs and specific PRs/MRs, Hugging Face models/datasets, and public S3/R2 buckets. Detection rules use regex plus an Expr (with legacy CEL compatibility) based prefilter/filter/validate pipeline, allowing entropy checks, keyword gating, and live API validation of found credentials (e.g. checking a GitHub PAT against api.github.com). It's used in production by projects like Aikido Security and shipped inside MegaLinter.

BetterleaksGitleaksGitHub+3

DevSecOps· Added 18 Sep 2026

aikido.devarticle

Betterleaks: Gitleaks creator's open-source secrets scanner successor

Betterleaks is a new open-source secrets scanner built by Gitleaks' original creator (now Head of Secrets Scanning at Aikido) as a drop-in replacement for Gitleaks. It adds CEL-based rule validation, a BPE-tokenization "token efficiency" filter that hits 98.6% recall on the CredData benchmark versus 70.4% for entropy-based detection, default double/triple-encoding handling, parallelized git repo scanning, and a pure-Go (no CGO/Hyperscan) implementation, with v2 plans for auto-revocation, permissions mapping, and LLM-assisted classification.

GitleaksBetterleaksAikido Security+1

CredData

DevSecOps· Added 18 Sep 2026

github.blogarticle

Workflow execution protections in GitHub Actions generally available - GitHub Changelog

GitHub Actions' workflow execution protections (actor and event allowlist rules) reach general availability, adding workflow-file-level policy targeting, an Insights dashboard for auditing rule impact, and a REST API for managing policy as code across an enterprise. Alongside this, GitHub is rolling out a new secure default that disables the pull_request_target trigger on public repositories lacking an existing policy, directly mitigating 'pwn request' attacks where fork-submitted code runs with base-repo secrets; the rule starts in evaluate (shadow) mode and becomes enforced on November 2, 2026.

GitHub Actions

pwn requestpull_request_target

DevSecOps· Added 21 Sep 2026, published 17 Sep 2026

socket.devarticle

GitHub Actions Adds cache-mode to Limit Cache Poisoning Risk

GitHub added cache-mode to Actions, a least-privilege control (read/write/write-only/none) that limits which workflows can restore or save entries in the shared Actions cache, targeting the cache poisoning technique used to compromise Ultralytics (PyPI) and the TanStack npm packages via a pull_request_target pwn request. Job-level settings override workflow-level ones, the mode propagates through reusable workflows, and GitHub warns when write access is granted to low-trust events; write-only was added after feedback from researcher Adnan Khan. The article notes build provenance (SLSA/Sigstore) doesn't catch a poisoned cache since it only attests to build origin, not input integrity, and recommends cache-mode: none for AI agent workflows exposed to prompt injection, referencing the Cline compromise.

GitHub ActionsnpmPyPI+3

TanStack attackCline compromisepwn request+3

DevSecOps, Supply Chain· Added 21 Sep 2026, published 16 Sep 2026

github.comrepo

Shai-Hulud-2.0-Detector — npm supply-chain compromise scanner

Shai-Hulud-2.0-Detector is a GitHub Action and CLI tool that scans package.json/lockfiles for packages compromised in the Shai-Hulud 2.0 (Nov 2025) and ChainDrop (Aug 2026) npm supply-chain worms. It uses semver-precise matching against a database of 1,241+ known-compromised package versions (auto-updated daily from Datadog and Wiz Research feeds) to flag malicious preinstall/postinstall droppers (setup_bun.js, Math_Symbol.js), rogue GitHub self-hosted runners named SHA1HULUD, and ChainDrop's new IDE-persistence hooks in .claude/settings.json and .vscode/tasks.json. It ships SARIF output for GitHub Security tab integration, an allowlist system, and a detailed incident-response guide covering credential rotation and forensic checks.

npmGitHub ActionsBun+3

Shai-Hulud 2.0ChainDropkeyv+6

Supply Chain, DevSecOps, Blue Team & Detection· Added 16 Sep 2026

aws.amazon.comwriteup

Operationalizing least privilege: Automate IAM remediation through your CI/CD pipeline

AWS Security Blog walkthrough of an open-source Lambda-based automation that closes the loop between IAM Access Analyzer's unused-permission findings and actual remediation: it classifies each flagged role by origin via CloudTrail (CloudFormation/CDK-managed, manually created, or unused), then uses Amazon Bedrock (Claude Sonnet for code generation, Claude Haiku for explanations) to open a pull request with right-sized CDK IAM policy code, a GitHub/GitLab issue with migration guidance, or a soft-disable decommission issue respectively. It covers cross-account/organization-wide deployment, exclusion lists for sensitive roles, throttling, dry-run mode, CloudWatch metrics, and cost/cleanup considerations, with full source in an accompanying repo.

AWS IAMAWS BedrockAWS CDK+3

IAM Access Analyzer

DevSecOps, Cloud & Infra· Added 7 Oct 2026, published 15 Sep 2026

aikido.devarticle

Dependabot vs Renovate

A comparison of GitHub's Dependabot and the open-source Renovate bot as automated dependency-update tools, covering setup, platform/monorepo support, PR noise, and how each handles security advisories versus transitive dependencies. The article argues both tools only bump version numbers rather than assessing exploitability, using the xz-utils backdoor, compromised chalk/debug npm packages, and a breaking lodash 4.18.0 patch as examples of why blind auto-updates can introduce new risk, then pitches Aikido Security's reachability-based backporting and AutoFix as the fix.

DependabotRenovateAikido Security+5

CVE-2026-48937xz-utils backdoorchalk+3

Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Added 15 Sep 2026, published 14 Sep 2026

endorlabs.comarticle

Why OVAL Feeds Outperform NVD for Linux Vulnerability Management | Blog | Endor Labs

Endor Labs explains why OVAL (Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language) feeds from Linux distributions like Debian, Ubuntu, and Red Hat produce more accurate vulnerability data than NVD for container/Linux scanning. Using CVE-2022-1587 (PCRE2 DoS) as a case study, it shows how NVD rated the flaw "Critical" (CVSS 9.1) while Ubuntu's OVAL-based advisory rated it "Low" because the distro had already backported a fix into a version string (10.34-7ubuntu0.1) that naive NVD-based scanners would still flag as vulnerable.

NVDOVALDebian+3

CVE-2022-1587

DevSecOps, AppSec· Published and added 11 Sep 2026

endorlabs.comwriteup

Shai-Hulud 2 Malware Campaign Targets GitHub and Cloud Credentials Using Bun Runtime | Blog | Endor Labs

Endor Labs' live incident tracker for the Shai-Hulud 2.0 npm supply-chain worm that began around Nov 24, 2025, compromising packages from Zapier, ENS Domains, Postman and PostHog. It details the infection chain (malicious preinstall script, setup_bun.js dropper, obfuscated bun_environment.js payload), TruffleHog-style credential theft from AWS, GCP, Azure, GitHub and npm, self-replication via stolen npm and GitHub tokens, a self-hosted GitHub Actions runner backdoor abusing repository Discussions for command injection and C2, and destructive wiper behavior that shreds the user's home directory on Windows and Linux.

npmBunGitHub Actions+3

Shai-Hulud 2.0Shai-HuludZapier+3

Supply Chain, Threat Intel, DevSecOps· Published and added 11 Sep 2026

endorlabs.comarticle

Why Cooldown Windows Belong in Every npm Security Strategy | Blog | Endor Labs

Endor Labs argues that cooldown windows delaying adoption of newly-published npm package versions by 24-48 hours are an effective defense against short-lived npm malware campaigns like Shai-Hulud, chalk/debug, and s1ngularity, since malicious releases are usually caught within that window. It also covers pinning vs lockfiles and demonstrates enforcing cooldown policies via OPA/Rego.

npmpnpmOpen Policy Agent+2

Shai-Huluds1ngularitychalk+1

Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Published and added 11 Sep 2026

github.comrepo

CassiopeiaCode/CosyRedactGateway

Cosy (CosyRedactGateway) is a Node.js gateway that sits between programmers' LLM clients and OpenAI or Anthropic APIs. It replaces credentials found in JSON request text with reversible SHA-256-based placeholders, using high-entropy scoring, structured detectors and Gitleaks-compatible rules, and restores them in responses, SSE streams and tool arguments. It runs on Cloudflare Workers, Deno or locally, and documents its limits: auth headers are still forwarded, and misses are possible.

Node.jsCloudflare WorkersDeno+2

GitleaksTransformVetter

DevSecOps, AI Security· Added 19 Oct 2026, published 11 Sep 2026

snyk.ioarticle

Is prevention essentially a solved problem?

A Snyk blog post arguing that preventing new vulnerabilities in agent-generated code is architecturally solved, using Laurie Voss's nested "loop" model (execution/task/product/system/oversight) to map four control types — in-context guidance, deterministic scanning inside the agent loop (Snyk's Trusted Output Assurance), LLM-based semantic analysis for authz/business-logic flaws like IDOR, and adversarial pentesting/red-teaming (Snyk's Continuous Offensive Security) — to the points in the SDLC where each is cost-effective. It cites Snyk VulnBench JS 1.0 data showing nearly half of LLM-found vulnerabilities appear in only one of five identical review runs, illustrating why single-pass LLM scanning needs repetition to be trusted, and closes by distinguishing solved "prevention" from unsolved "remediation" of existing vulnerability backlogs.

Snyk

IDORVulnBench JS 1.0Laurie Voss+3

AI Security, AppSec, DevSecOps· Published and added 10 Sep 2026

github.comrepo

vet (SafeDep)

vet is an open-source CLI (from SafeDep) that scans package manifests, SBOMs, container images, and source repos across npm, PyPI, Maven, Go, RubyGems, Cargo, and Packagist to surface vulnerabilities, malicious packages, and license/quality issues. It cuts through CVE noise by analyzing actual code-usage evidence, queries SafeDep Cloud's threat-intelligence database for real-time malware detection (e.g. flagged packages like express-cookie-parser, eslint-config-airbnb-compat), and lets teams enforce security/license/OpenSSF-Scorecard policies as CEL expressions in CI/CD via SARIF/JSON/Markdown reporting.

npmPyPIMaven+3

MAL-2025-3541MAL-2025-4339MAL-2025-4029+2

Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Published and added 7 Sep 2026

github.comrepo

ForgeGuardian

ForgeGuardian is an open-source (Apache 2.0) supply chain security scanner covering 9 package ecosystems (npm, PyPI, Go, Maven, RubyGems, Cargo, NuGet, Hugging Face, GitHub Actions) via 8 concurrent scan engines and 223+ built-in malicious-package detection signatures. It runs fully offline/local-first, offers a CLI (fgctl) and self-hosted SOC-style dashboard, generates CycloneDX/SPDX SBOMs, supports Sigstore keyless signing and provenance tracking, policy-as-code rules, dependency topology/attack-surface mapping, drift detection with auto-quarantine, and SARIF output for GitHub Actions CI integration, plus optional AI-powered advisory/patch-agent triage.

npmPyPIGo+3

Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Published and added 5 Sep 2026

github.comrepo

The React Native Developer's Security Guide

A GitHub-hosted book focused entirely on securing the React Native developer's workstation and toolchain rather than the shipped app — covering the polyglot execution surface triggered by a single git clone/yarn/pod install (Ruby, CocoaPods, Xcode build phases/XCSSET, Gradle, gradle-wrapper.jar, keystores), CVE-2025-11953 (exposed Metro/RN dev server), ClickFix-style social engineering of developers, CI-as-extended-workstation risks, and Expo/EAS-specific supply-chain concerns. It ships alongside a separate companion repo of 119 Opengrep detection rules, each mapped to a specific chapter's attack technique, plus practical appendices like a safe-clone runbook and a file risk atlas for hardening teams.

React NativeExpoCocoaPods+3

CVE-2025-11953ClickFixXCSSET

Mobile Security, Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Published and added 5 Sep 2026

stepsecurity.ioarticle

Dev Machine Guard Now Supports Linux - StepSecurity

StepSecurity announces Linux support (Debian/RPM, .deb and .rpm packages) for Dev Machine Guard, its open-source developer-machine inventory and scanning engine, extending existing macOS/Windows coverage. The tool detects installed AI coding agents (Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Codex), IDE extensions from VS Code Marketplace and OpenVSX, MCP server configs, npm packages, and Linux system packages (rpm, dpkg, pacman, apk, snap, flatpak) via native mechanisms like systemd user timers and BIOS-serial device identity, and is explicitly framed as a response to incidents like the Shai-Hulud npm worm, s1ngularity/Nx compromise, and Mini Shai-Hulud/TanStack attacks. It ships in a free local-only Community mode and a paid Enterprise mode with centralized dashboard, policy enforcement, and dependency cooldown/alerting.

StepSecuritynpmPyPI+13

Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Added 5 Sep 2026

stepsecurity.iowriteup

Megalodon: Mass GitHub Actions Secret Exfiltration Across 5,500+ Public Repositories - StepSecurity

StepSecurity documents Megalodon, a May 2026 campaign that injected backdoored GitHub Actions workflow files named SysDiag or Optimize-Build directly into 5,500+ public repositories in a six-hour window via direct Poisoned Pipeline Execution (d-PPE), exploiting weak branch protection. The base64-encoded bash payload harvests AWS/GCP/Azure credentials, SSH keys, Kubernetes/npm/Docker configs, GitHub OIDC tokens, and grep-matched secrets from the workspace, exfiltrating everything via HTTPS POST to a hardcoded C2 IP; the npm package @tiledesk/tiledesk-server was among the confirmed poisoned downstream targets.

GitHub ActionsnpmStepSecurity+3

MegalodonT1195.002Tiledesk+8

Supply Chain, DevSecOps, Threat Intel· Added 5 Sep 2026

stepsecurity.ioadvisory

actions-cool/issues-helper GitHub Action Compromised: All Tags Point to Imposter Commit That Exfiltrates CI/CD Credentials - StepSecurity

StepSecurity discovered that all 53 tags of the popular actions-cool/issues-helper GitHub Action (and all 15 tags of actions-cool/maintain-one-comment) were re-pointed to dangling imposter commits containing malicious code. The payload downloads the Bun runtime, reads Runner.Worker process memory to harvest decrypted CI/CD secrets, and exfiltrates them via HTTPS to t.m-kosche.com — meaning any workflow referencing the actions by tag (rather than a pinned commit SHA) pulls the malicious code on its next run.

GitHub ActionsBunStepSecurity+1

actions-cool/issues-helperactions-cool/maintain-one-commentt.m-kosche.com

Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Added 5 Sep 2026

stepsecurity.ioarticle

Dev Machine Guard Now Supports Windows - StepSecurity

StepSecurity announces Windows 10/11 support (x64 and ARM64, Sigstore-signed with build provenance) for Dev Machine Guard, its open-source developer-endpoint scanner. It inventories AI coding agents, MCP server configs, IDE extensions from the VS Code Marketplace and OpenVSX, and global and per-project npm packages. This lets teams find which developer machines have a compromised package or extension after incidents like Shai-Hulud, s1ngularity and Mini Shai-Hulud. Windows detection uses %LOCALAPPDATA%, %PROGRAMFILES%, registry Uninstall keys and schtasks scheduling. Community mode runs fully locally, while enterprise mode reports to a dashboard with policy enforcement.

Dev Machine GuardStepSecurityWindows+3

Shai-HuludMini Shai-Huluds1ngularity+1

Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Added 5 Sep 2026

jessehouwing.netwriteup

A trust checklist for GitHub Actions

Presents a tiered trust checklist for evaluating third-party GitHub Actions before referencing them in a workflow, covering maintenance/tooling signals, unpinned transitive dependencies, release attestations, and governance, with weaker popularity-based signals separated into a second tier. It then argues that any point-in-time trust assessment only holds if the referenced commit is immutable, and compares raw SHA pinning against GitHub's immutable releases and the new gh-actions-lock CLI extension, which verifies commit reachability to defeat impostor-commit attacks. It closes by noting StepSecurity's GitHub Action Advisor automates some of the checklist's queryable signals using Harden-Runner telemetry.

GitHub ActionsStepSecurityHarden-Runner+2

impostor commitWorkflow Dependency Pinning

DevSecOps, Supply Chain· Added 21 Sep 2026, published 4 Sep 2026

securitylab.github.comadvisory

GHSL-2026-203: Same-second TOCTOU in jupyterlab/maintainer-tools

GitHub Security Lab discloses GHSL-2026-203 / CVE-2026-84973, a same-second time-of-check-to-time-of-use race condition in the jupyterlab/maintainer-tools update-snapshots-checkout GitHub Action. The action compares one-second-precision pushed_at and comment created_at timestamps to detect post-authorization pushes, but a strict greater-than check lets an attacker push a malicious commit in the same second as an authorized "please update snapshots" comment, causing the action to check out and later execute attacker-controlled code (including a local composite action and jlpm-driven package scripts) with the workflow's GITHUB_TOKEN (contents: write, pull-requests: write) in the jupyter/notebook repository. The issue was fixed in v1.0.0 and is a variant of the "pwn request" class of GitHub Actions vulnerabilities.

GitHub ActionsGitHubjlpm+1

CVE-2026-84973GHSA-wwhg-p79f-vfvmCWE-367+4

DevSecOps, Supply Chain· Added 20 Sep 2026, published 4 Sep 2026

adversa.aiarticle

Top AI coding agent security resources — September 2026

Adversa AI's monthly roundup of AI coding-agent security research, covering nine items: GhostJacking (using a WAF's own block logs as a prompt-injection delivery channel, 90% success against Claude Code), Black Hat disclosures of unauthenticated-issue-to-RCE chains in the default GitHub Actions configs published by Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI for their coding agents (Gemini CLI rated CVSS 10.0), an agent-to-agent privilege-boundary bypass in Google's ADK repository, the new OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10 with a walkthrough showing open-source skill scanners miss encoded payloads while flagging 9-62% of legitimate skills as malicious, a seven-layer "secure agent harness" containment design, and a 2,826-file adversarial skill benchmark where Gemini CLI and Qwen Code were exploitable 95.5% and 71.6% of the time respectively. The piece draws a common thread across all findings: agents treat machine-generated artifacts (logs, images, other agents' outputs) as trusted instructions, and existing detection never fires.

Claude CodeGemini CLICodex+3

GhostJackingOWASP Agentic Skills Top 10module shadowing+1

AI Security, DevSecOps· Added 7 Oct 2026, published 3 Sep 2026

endorlabs.comarticle

The Secure Agentic Development Lifecycle (ADLC), Explained | Blog | Endor Labs

Endor Labs defines the "agentic development lifecycle" (ADLC) — the process by which AI coding agents autonomously plan, write, test, and ship code — and lays out where it introduces new security risk: insecure-by-default code, architectural design flaws that pass static analysis, hallucinated/unvetted dependencies, and a review bottleneck as agents outpace human reviewers. It cites benchmark data (62% of best-model BaxBench solutions insecure, only 10.5% of SWE-Agent/Claude 4 Sonnet solutions secure, only 1 in 5 AI-recommended dependency versions safe) and proposes a control stack — secure-generation prompting, security-aware multi-agent PR review, reachability-based prioritization, and automated remediation — mapped to NIST SP 800-218A, CSA's Agentic SDLC, and OWASP.

Model Context ProtocolCursorClaude Code+3

BaxBenchSWE-AgentNIST SP 800-218A+4

AI Security, Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 2 Sep 2026

endorlabs.comarticle

Secrets in AI-Generated Code: How Coding Agents Leak Credentials | Blog | Endor Labs

Endor Labs breaks down why AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) hardcode and leak secrets (CWE-798): they learn the habit from public training data, then compound it by ingesting whole workspaces including .env files and copying live tokens into new code or MCP configs. It cites hard data — GitGuardian's 2026 report found 28.65M new hardcoded secrets on public GitHub in 2025 and a 3.2% secret-leak rate on Claude Code-assisted commits vs 1.5% baseline, Lakera found credentials in 33 .claude/settings.local.json files across 30 packages, and Wiz found AI-related secrets among the most common validated leaked credential types — then lays out a layered defense (pre-commit/IDE/CI/CD/full git-history scanning, active credential validation, secure prompting) and an incident-response order of operations (rotate, investigate, purge history, revoke, re-scan).

GitleaksTruffleHogEndor Labs+2

CWE-798FedRAMPEU Cyber Resilience Act

DevSecOps, AI Security· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 2 Sep 2026

endorlabs.comarticle

Application Security Monitoring for AI-Assisted Development | Blog | Endor Labs

Endor Labs blog post arguing that AI coding agents break the traditional scan-then-fix rhythm of application security because commit volume outpaces review queues, and proposes continuous monitoring of dependency drift, code reachability, and secret exposure instead of point-in-time scans. It distinguishes findings, vulnerabilities, and exploitable weaknesses, and recommends ranking by function-level reachability (Endor Labs claims up to 92% noise reduction) rather than raw CVSS severity, with fixes surfaced as PR comments rather than dashboard alerts.

Endor LabsCVSS

AppSec, DevSecOps, Supply Chain· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 2 Sep 2026

stepsecurity.ioarticle

Introducing deny list egress policies for Harden-Runner

StepSecurity's Harden-Runner GitHub Action v2.21.0 adds a denied-endpoints input, letting teams block specific egress destinations (domains, wildcards, bare IPs) from CI jobs while leaving everything else reachable — a lighter-weight alternative to allow lists that don't require full enumeration of a job's needs. The piece details how deny-list entries differ from allow-list ones (no per-port scoping), covers the flagship use case of forcing package installs through StepSecurity's Secure Registry proxy by denying direct access to registries like PyPI and Go module hosts, and explains that Harden-Runner's separately maintained Global Block List (built from SOC threat intel, e.g. the Megalodon credential-exfiltration campaign) is distinct from and complements user-managed deny lists. It also candidly notes the deny list's blind spot: campaigns like Shai-Hulud 2.0 that exfiltrate via github.com itself can't be stopped by a deny list, requiring allow-list enforcement instead.

GitHub ActionsnpmPyPI+1

Harden-RunnerStepSecuritySecure Registry+3

DevSecOps, Supply Chain· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 2 Sep 2026

stepsecurity.ioarticle

Runtime Security for AWS CodeBuild-Hosted GitHub Actions Runners

StepSecurity announces Harden-Runner support (v2.20.1+/v2.21.0) for GitHub Actions jobs executed on AWS CodeBuild-hosted just-in-time runners, including custom container images. The post frames the feature around CVE-2025-8217, where a threat actor exfiltrated GitHub tokens by dumping CodeBuild build-environment memory via a malicious pull request to compromise the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code and AWS SDK for .NET repos, and notes that CodeBuild runners additionally expose an assumed IAM service role and VPC network reachability that GitHub-hosted runners don't have. Harden-Runner correlates outbound network calls, file writes, and process executions to the workflow step that triggered them and unifies detection across GitHub-hosted, self-hosted, ARC, and CodeBuild-hosted runner fleets.

AWS CodeBuildGitHub ActionsAWS IAM

CVE-2025-8217TeamPCPCloudSEK+3

DevSecOps, Cloud & Infra· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 2 Sep 2026

endorlabs.comarticle

Hooks are the control plane for the agentic development lifecycle | Blog | Endor Labs

Endor Labs blog post arguing that lifecycle hooks — not system prompts, skills, or MCP tools — are the only enforceable control plane for coding agents, because hooks intercept consequential actions (shell commands, file writes, credential access, package installs) before execution and return a deterministic allow/block/escalate verdict the agent cannot opt out of or reason around. It frames platform engineering's "golden path" concept applied to the agentic development lifecycle (ADLC), positioning hooks as the mechanism to restore reliability and observability that autonomous coding agents otherwise erode.

Claude CodeModel Context ProtocolEndor Labs

DORA

AI Security, DevSecOps· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 1 Sep 2026

thehackernews.comwriteup

Claude Code & Gemini CLI: GitHub Issue → CI Secrets

Novee Security disclosed that a low-privilege GitHub issue could trigger code execution on CI runners for Gemini CLI and Claude Code, and hijack the next agent run in OpenAI Codex, via flaws in the "harness" code surrounding each coding agent rather than the LLM itself. CVE-2026-12537 is a CVSS 10.0 OS command injection in Gemini CLI's container launcher via a crafted .gemini/.env file (fixed in 0.39.1); CVE-2026-54316 abused Hugging Face's public download counter as a side channel to exfiltrate a Claude Code API key one character at a time (fixed in 2.1.163). A separate Claude Code bash-quoting validator bypass and a Codex AGENTS.md instruction-file poisoning issue (via shared checkout across two passes) had no CVE, prompting OpenAI to only issue workflow/documentation fixes.

Claude CodeGemini CLICodex+3

CVE-2026-12537CVE-2026-54316Novee Security+3

DevSecOps, Supply Chain, AI Security· Published and added 1 Sep 2026

github.comrepo

PackageGuard

PackageGuard is an open-source .NET CLI tool that scans NuGet, npm, pnpm and Yarn dependencies (direct and transitive) across a codebase, enforcing hierarchically-configured allow- and deny-lists for licenses, packages and versions. It scores each package's Legal, Security and Operational risk using signals like OSV vulnerability data, maintainer activity, package signing and release cadence, and can emit a CycloneDX or SPDX SBOM enriched with OSV vulnerability data, plus console, HTML and SARIF output for CI/GitHub code scanning. It's positioned as a free alternative to commercial supply-chain tools like Black Duck and Snyk.

NuGetnpmpnpm+3

Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Published and added 31 Aug 2026

stepsecurity.iowriteup

@7nohe/openapi-react-query-codegen Compromised Through an Exposed npm Publishing Workflow

StepSecurity documents how an external GitHub user (p00paboot) hijacked the release workflow of @7nohe/openapi-react-query-codegen by exploiting an npm publish issue-comment trigger that lacked commenter authorization checks, allowing pull-request code to be checked out and published via GitHub Actions OIDC trusted publishing. Ten malicious versions were pushed with preinstall hooks and a poisoned binding.gyp that executed a payload downloading Bun, stealing GitHub/git credentials, probing GCP metadata, and enumerating SSH keys, confirmed via StepSecurity Harden-Runner behavioral analysis on isolated runners. The post lists affected versions, file/hash IOCs, and remediation steps including credential rotation and pinning to clean releases.

npmGitHub ActionsBun+3

StepSecurityHarden-Runner@7nohe/openapi-react-query-codegen+2

Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 28 Aug 2026

stepsecurity.ioarticle

Dev Machine Guard Now Inventories Where Developer Credentials Live

StepSecurity describes a new Credentials inventory page in Dev Machine Guard that scans developer machines for thirteen well-known credential source types (npm, PyPI, Docker, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Vault, GitHub, SSH keys, etc.) across five categories and reports how many devices hold each, how many entries exist, and whether the material is stored in plaintext or protected. It frames the feature against real attacker behavior - the TeamPCP stealer in the xinference PyPI package and the hijacked Bitwarden CLI npm package both enumerated this exact list of well-known dotfile paths - arguing defenders need the same enumeration attackers already have to scope incidents and plan rotations.

SSHnpmPyPI+3

TeamPCPBitwarden CLIShai-Hulud+1

DevSecOps, Supply Chain· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 28 Aug 2026

aikido.devarticle

Securing Docker images

Aikido Security's guide to hardening Docker images explains where container vulnerabilities come from (base OS layers like Debian/glibc that ship far more than an app needs), citing CVE-2023-4911 (Looney Tunables in glibc) and the xz-utils backdoor as cautionary examples for version-pinning decisions. It lays out hardening steps such as multi-stage builds, removing unused packages, non-root users, read-only filesystems, dropping Linux capabilities, pinning base images by digest, generating SBOMs, and signing/verifying images, then pitches Aikido Images, which backports CVE patches onto the same pinned base image version instead of forcing a migration to a new hardened distro.

DockerNode.jsDebian+2

CVE-2023-4911xz-utils

DevSecOps, Supply Chain· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 28 Aug 2026

github.comrepo

DataSentry

DataSentry is a Claude Code plugin that redacts secrets (AWS keys, tokens, credentials) from tool outputs before they enter the model's context window, using deterministic hooks rather than model instructions, and blocks prompts that contain live credentials. It ships 40 regex-based detection rules (ported from an enterprise Warp ADE ruleset), stable per-secret placeholders via sha1 hashing, per-category overrides, an audit log, and a fail-closed mode; PII/financial/healthcare pattern detection is reserved for a paid Enterprise tier.

Claude CodePython

Warp

AI Security, DevSecOps· Published and added 27 Aug 2026

jfrog.comarticle

JFrog: Coding Agents Just Reopened Your Software Supply Chain Blind Spot

JFrog describes how AI coding agents like Cursor and Claude Code autonomously select and download dependencies directly from public registries (npm, PyPI, Maven, Go, Docker Hub, Helm, NuGet), bypassing organizational curation, scanning, and audit controls entirely. It cites JFrog's 2026 State of the Union data (451% surge in malicious npm packages, ~20% of AI package recommendations referencing non-existent "slopsquatted" packages) and announces Agent Package Resolution, a JFrog Artifactory feature that transparently routes agent-driven package installs through existing curation/Xray scanning policies via session steering, persistent package-manager config, and server-side enforcement.

JFrog ArtifactoryCursorClaude Code+3

slopsquatting

Supply Chain, AI Security, DevSecOps· Published and added 25 Aug 2026

github.comrepo

IAM Policy Autopilot

IAM Policy Autopilot is an AWS Labs open-source CLI/MCP server that statically analyzes application source code (Python, Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, Java) or a Terraform plan JSON to generate baseline least-privilege IAM identity-based policies, and can also parse AccessDenied error messages to suggest policy fixes. It integrates with AI coding assistants (Kiro, Claude Desktop, etc.) via MCP so assistants can auto-generate scoped IAM permissions instead of overly broad ones, with a --service-hints flag to reduce false-positive permission inclusion.

AWS IAMAWSTerraform+3

Kiro

Cloud & Infra, DevSecOps· Published and added 25 Aug 2026

aikido.devarticle

Shai-Hulud was the best thing to happen to supply chain security

Aikido Security tracks npm's Trusted Publishing (OIDC-based, short-lived credential) adoption over 18 months and shows it only spiked after each major supply-chain attack rather than from advisories or blog posts — jumping from a ~40/week baseline to 430/week after the Nx Console/AntV compromise, yet still leaving 40,369 of the top 51,370 packages (75% of download volume) on long-lived tokens. It chronicles the full attack progression from credential-phishing (Debug/Chalk, Axios) through Pwn Request-driven CI compromise (S1ngularity, Shai-Hulud 2.0) to the Mini Shai-Hulud II/TanStack attack, which poisoned the GitHub Actions cache to extract a live OIDC token from runner memory and publish packages with valid SLSA Build Level 3 provenance — proving Trusted Publishing itself can be turned into the attack vector rather than just bypassed. It closes by arguing the security community should proactively pressure high-download holdout maintainers rather than wait for the next worm.

npmPyPIGitHub Actions+5

Shai-HuludShai-Hulud 2.0Mini Shai-Hulud+21

Supply Chain, DevSecOps, Identity & Access· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 24 Aug 2026

stepsecurity.ioarticle

The State of Open Source Supply Chain Attacks

StepSecurity's threat intelligence team's annual report tallies 56 confirmed software supply chain attacks between August 2025 and August 2026, showing an over 8x acceleration since February 2026 driven by self-propagating worms (Shai-Hulud, Shai-Hulud 2.0, CanisterWorm, Miasma, ChainDrop) and mutable GitHub Actions tags. It details the five-day TeamPCP campaign that stole 78,330 secrets from 2,186 organizations by poisoning Trivy Action, Checkmarx KICS, telnyx, and LiteLLM, plus compromises spanning npm, PyPI, RubyGems, Composer, and crates.io.

npmGitHub ActionsPyPI+3

Shai-HuludShai-Hulud 2.0CanisterWorm+22

Supply Chain, DevSecOps, Threat Intel· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 23 Aug 2026

stepsecurity.iowriteup

Rust Supply-Chain Attack: arrayref, internment, and append-only-vec Poisoned by the proc-macro1 Build-Time Dropper

StepSecurity's forensic writeup on a compromised crates.io maintainer account that published poisoned releases of arrayref (245M downloads), internment, and append-only-vec, each pulling in proc-macro1, a typosquat of proc-macro2 impersonating David Tolnay whose build.rs silently drops and executes a cross-platform stage-2 payload at compile time. The attacker also mass-yanked clean arrayref versions to funnel Cargo's "yanked" warning toward the one poisoned release, and StepSecurity reproduced the attack in GitHub Actions with Harden-Runner, capturing the C2 callback to 23.254.165.112:9089 and demonstrating automatic blocking via a global IOC block list. The post includes the full attack timeline, dropper base64-obfuscated URL scheme, SHA-256 hashes, C2 IOCs, and remediation/detection guidance for lockfiles and CI caches.

RustCargocrates.io+3

arrayrefinternmentappend-only-vec+15

Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 22 Aug 2026

aikido.devarticle

What is CVE remediation in 2026?

Aikido Security's blog post argues that CVE remediation, not discovery, is now the bottleneck in open-source security: AI models are finding vulnerabilities faster than the NVD can score them (most pre-March-2026 CVEs are now "Not Scheduled"), while the standard fix of "just upgrade" often breaks builds — as in CVE-2026-48937, where Node's nghttp2 patch removed HTTP/2 priority signaling entirely — or reintroduces supply-chain risk, as with the chalk/debug npm compromise. It pitches backporting (patching the exact pinned version instead of upgrading) as the fix, implemented by Aikido's own "Aikido Libraries" product across npm, PyPI, and Maven.

Node.jsnpmPyPI+4

CVE-2026-48937chalkdebug+3

Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 21 Aug 2026

snyk.ioarticle

Remediation Agents, Demystified: Why Fixing Beats Finding

Recap of a Snyk "AI Security Engineers Community" livestream introducing Remediation Agent, now in public preview: an orchestration layer that sits between a developer's chosen LLM and Snyk's vulnerability intelligence (breakability assessments for OSS upgrades, package health/reachability scores, SAST fix generation, and ecosystem-specific upgrade playbooks) to auto-generate mergeable SCA and SAST fixes. It was demoed live against OWASP Juice Shop via the CLI (snyk fix --agentic --experimental --sca) and via an IDE path (Snyk Studio MCP server plus a /snyk-fix skill in Cursor, Windsurf, or VS Code), with Snyk reporting internal gains of 94% more mergeable SCA fixes and 13% more mergeable SAST fixes versus naively pointing an LLM at a vulnerability backlog.

SnykSnyk CodeModel Context Protocol+2

OWASP Juice ShopmulterGlob

AppSec, AI Security, DevSecOps· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 19 Aug 2026

wiz.iowriteup

Wiz Red Agent Finds Its Way Into Snowflake’s Internal Jira Through a Flaw in a GitHub Copilot–Assisted PR

Wiz's autonomous "Red Agent" discovered a GitHub Actions script-injection vulnerability in snowflakedb/snowflake-connector-net's jira_issue.yml workflow, introduced when a PR (co-authored by GitHub Copilot) replaced a safe env:/jq pattern with direct interpolation of the attacker-controlled issue title. GitHub Advanced Security scanned the same PR and workflow but failed to flag the injection; Red Agent autonomously crafted and self-corrected a payload after a bash syntax error, exfiltrated Jira OAuth credentials via an out-of-band callback, and used them to access Snowflake's internal Jira (engineering, security, and bug-bounty projects) — all without human intervention. Snowflake patched and rotated credentials the same day the flaw was reported via HackerOne.

GitHub ActionsGitHub Advanced SecurityGitHub Copilot+3

Red AgentWiz Research

DevSecOps, AI Security, Offensive Security· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 17 Aug 2026

stepsecurity.ioarticle

Team PCP Stole 78,330 Secrets From 2,186 Organizations. CloudSEK Just Published the List.

StepSecurity analyzes CloudSEK's newly published dataset on TeamPCP, a threat actor that compromised trusted open-source CI/CD components (Trivy GitHub Action, Checkmarx KICS action, telnyx PyPI package, LiteLLM) to harvest 78,330 secrets from 2,186 organizations' CI/CD pipelines across GitHub Actions, GitLab, and Azure DevOps in five days in March 2026. The post breaks down which platforms and credential types were exposed (GitLab led, 230+ Azure DevOps orgs, 157 leaked OpenAI keys) and maps layered CI/CD runtime controls (egress control, runner lockdown, imposter-commit detection, workflow policies) as mitigations against this class of attack.

GitHub ActionsGitLabAzure DevOps+5

TeamPCPCloudSEKChainDrop+1

Supply Chain, DevSecOps, Threat Intel· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 15 Aug 2026

blog.docsgpt.cloudwriteup

DocsGPT Security Hardening Playbook

DocsGPT documents the security practices it adopted through GitHub's Secure Open Source Fund: a public STRIDE-based THREAT_MODEL.md, mitigations for its sandboxed AI code-execution feature (scrubbed env vars, NetworkPolicy blocking internal IPs and cloud-metadata to stop SSRF, off-by-default), a dependency-tree audit with SPDX SBOM export and Dependabot, and CI automation using custom CodeQL queries, Bandit, zizmor for GitHub Actions hardening, and secret scanning. It's a practical baseline playbook for maintainers dealing with high volumes of AI-authored PRs that can't all be manually reviewed.

CodeQLDependabotSBOM+3

STRIDEGitHub Secure Open Source FundUncle Bob Martin

DevSecOps, Supply Chain, AI Security· Published and added 15 Aug 2026

ionix.iowriteup

We built an AI PR reviewer. The hard part was teaching it to say nothing.

Ionix's engineering team describes building an in-house AI PR reviewer using OpenAI's Codex CLI against a self-hosted Azure AI Foundry model deployment, wired into CircleCI and Bitbucket, after dropping Atlassian Rovo for cost and low signal-to-noise. The piece details prompt design to suppress low-value comments, agentic repo-wide review (vs. diff-only), sharding for large PRs, JSON output validation against git ls-files, storing review state inside PR comments via base64-in-markdown, and a dedicated prompt-injection defense section (scrubbed environment, secret redaction, sandboxed execution, egress restriction). It also covers two production failures: a silently-broken bubblewrap sandbox that kept "reviewing" without running any tools, and an unpinned Codex CLI npm dependency that broke Azure API calls across every repo.

Codex CLIAzureFoundry+3

AI Security, DevSecOps· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 13 Aug 2026

wiz.ioarticle

Closing the Blind Spot: Securing Personal Repositories in the Software Supply Chain

Wiz research blog on how developers' personal public GitHub repositories create a secrets-exposure blind spot outside org security boundaries, citing that 65% of the Forbes AI 50 had verified secret leaks and 56% of company-impacting secrets lived in personal repos, often granting infrastructure-level access (cloud credentials, CI/CD tokens, AI service keys). It describes Wiz Code's approach: inventorying developer identities to discover the personal repos they own, mapping leaked secrets to attack paths on the Wiz Security Graph, and using an AI-driven "Red Agent" to validate exploitability before triggering rotation/remediation workflows.

WizGitHub

Wiz ResearchRed Agent

DevSecOps, Supply Chain· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 13 Aug 2026

endorlabs.comarticle

Why NPM Malware Keeps Reaching for Bun | Supply Chain Security | Blog | Endor Labs

Endor Labs analyzes why a string of npm supply-chain campaigns — Shai-Hulud 2.0 (Nov 2025, 796 packages backdoored) and an April 2026 SAP-ecosystem attack on mbt, @cap-js/db-service, @cap-js/sqlite and @cap-js/postgres — all use the same second stage: a preinstall script that downloads the Bun JavaScript runtime to run an obfuscated credential stealer. Bun is attractive to attackers because it's a userland, statically-linked binary with a different process name than node, bypasses Node's --require/NODE_OPTIONS instrumentation hooks, and ships built-in shell/decompression/HTTP primitives (Bun.$, Bun.gunzipSync) that avoid the suspicious imports scanners look for. The piece also notes CVE-2026-24910, a trusted-dependency spoofing flaw in Bun's package manager, and recommends prioritized controls: disable npm lifecycle scripts (ignore-scripts=true) with an auditable allowlist, enforce a minimum release age/cooldown on dependencies, block known-malicious versions pre-install, eliminate long-lived npm/cloud tokens, and detect on process lineage rather than binary name.

BunnpmNode.js+3

Shai-Hulud 2.0CVE-2026-24910mbt+3

Supply Chain, Blue Team & Detection, DevSecOps· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 12 Aug 2026

stepsecurity.ioarticle

Control Which Package Registries Your CI Jobs and Developer Machines Use

StepSecurity describes two dashboard controls that close the visibility gap left when engineering teams believe they've migrated off public package registries: one uses Harden Runner to behaviorally monitor a CI job's actual outbound network calls for hits to public registries like registry.npmjs.org or pypi.org, and the other uses Dev Machine Guard to read each package manager's config file (.npmrc, pip.conf) on every developer machine to report its effective registry. It ties this to 2026 incidents — malicious axios versions on npm, a credential stealer hidden in two litellm PyPI releases, and a republished @bitwarden/cli that harvested SSH keys and GitHub tokens to inject malicious CI workflows — arguing developer machines, not just CI, are the entry point attackers use. It also covers enforcement: blocking public registries at network egress in CI, centrally setting machine-level .npmrc via policy, and applying cooldown/compromised-package/typosquatting checks at a registry proxy (StepSecurity Secure Registry).

npmPyPIGitHub Actions+3

Harden-RunnerBitwarden CLI compromise

Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 12 Aug 2026

github.comrepo

npm-scan

npm-scan is a CLI supply-chain security scanner (@lateos/npm-scan) that inspects npm packages and lockfiles for behavioral attack patterns missed by npm audit/Snyk/Socket, including obfuscated payloads, credential stealers, eBPF kernel rootkits, memory-level OIDC token extraction, GitHub maintainer-account spoofing, and AI-platform-targeted key theft. It ships 23 detectors (D1-D25), validated against real campaigns like IronWorm and Miasma, and outputs SBOM (CycloneDX/SPDX) and SARIF for GitHub Security, plus a workflow to submit critical findings to CISA's VINCE with mandatory manual review. It's free (MIT) for individuals/OSS/evaluation, with paid commercial tiers ($799-$9,900/yr).

npmGitHub ActionsDocker+3

IronWormMiasmaCISA+1

Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Published and added 5 Aug 2026

endorlabs.comarticle

Upgrade Impact Analysis: Patch Without Breaking Your Build | Blog | Endor Labs

Endor Labs explains "upgrade impact analysis," a call-graph-based technique that diffs a dependency's current and target versions, overlays the changed symbols onto an application's call graph, and determines whether any code path actually reaches the changed code before a version bump is merged. It categorizes upgrade risk into breaking API changes, transitive dependency conflicts, and silent behavioral regressions, and proposes a decision framework (upgrade, backport a patch, or wait) based on reachability and blast-radius scoring so teams can fix CVEs without breaking builds.

Endor Labs

Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 3 Aug 2026

wiz.ioarticle

Introducing the Wiz Sensor for Developer Workstations to Protect Endpoints in the AI Era

Wiz announces a new endpoint sensor for developer workstations (Windows/macOS, private preview) that inventories packages, IDE extensions, AI coding agents, and MCP servers, and detects known/emerging supply chain attacks in real time. The post details three real-world campaigns that motivated it: Shai-Hulud (a self-propagating npm worm that ran TruffleHog via postinstall scripts to steal npm tokens and republish itself), the Axios backdoor (a compromised maintainer account injecting C2-calling code executed within 1.1 seconds of npm install), and s1ngularity (a compromised Nx build system/VS Code extension that harvested GitHub/npm/SSH/cloud credentials and weaponized local AI CLI tools like Claude and Gemini to exfiltrate filesystem data, leaking 1,000+ GitHub tokens and exposing 5,500 private repos).

npmWizNx+3

Shai-Huluds1ngularityAxios npm backdoor

Supply Chain, DevSecOps, AI Security· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 3 Aug 2026

github.comrepo

Nomos

Nomos is an open-source permission/authorization layer for custom AI agent tools: agents propose actions (e.g. email.send), and Nomos evaluates them against a policy as ALLOW, DENY, or REQUIRE_APPROVAL before the underlying tool executes. It ships a CLI for writing and running permission tests in CI (with a GitHub Actions example pinning a checksummed release), a Python SDK for wrapping tools with explicit external authorization, and a LangGraph integration that pauses a workflow for human review before resuming execution.

LangGraphPythonGo+3

AI Security, DevSecOps· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 2 Aug 2026

endorlabs.comarticle

When the Guardrails Slip: The Case for Hook-Based Governance Across Agent Platforms | Blog | Endor Labs

Endor Labs analyzes three recent coding-agent security disclosures — a chained CWE-78 command-injection CVE trio in Claude Code CLI (CVE-2026-35020/35021/35022) leading to credential exfiltration, the cross-vendor "Comment and Control" GitHub prompt-injection attack hitting Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and GitHub Copilot Agent, and a Claude Code deny-rule bypass where policy silently stops enforcing past 50 subcommands — and argues each would have been disrupted by a platform-agnostic hook layer intercepting file writes/reads, tool calls, and egress. It maps each attack stage to hook intercept points, notes hooks' limits (entry-point injection before hook loader init, in-process bypasses needing real sandboxing), and pitches Endor Labs' own hook-based governance product as the cross-vendor policy layer.

Claude CodeGemini CLIGitHub Copilot+2

CVE-2026-35020CVE-2026-35021CVE-2026-35022+7

AI Security, AppSec, DevSecOps· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 31 Jul 2026

endorlabs.comarticle

Critical Security Controls for Governing AI Coding Agents | Blog | Endor Labs

Endor Labs analyzes the security risks of AI coding agents running on developer laptops with shell, filesystem, network access and the developer's own credentials, framing the threat as prompt-injection-driven abuse of legitimate agent capabilities (e.g., an agent tricked into exfiltrating .env via a malicious README). It maps six control points — EDR/XDR, sandboxes/containers, AI/MCP gateways, in-agent hooks, package firewalls, and secrets scanning/PR controls — arguing that in-agent hooks (deterministic allow/deny/ask decisions on proposed actions before execution) are the only point that intercepts model intent before it becomes a shell command, and promotes Endor Labs' own hook-based AI Coding Agent Governance and Package Firewall products as the implementation.

Claude CodeCodex CLIGitHub Copilot CLI+5

AI Security, DevSecOps, Supply Chain· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 31 Jul 2026

endorlabs.comarticle

Introducing AI Coding Agent Governance: Using Hooks to Bring Visibility to the ADLC | Blog | Endor Labs

Endor Labs explains how the hook systems in Claude Code (.claude/settings.json) and Cursor (.cursor/hooks.json) work as deterministic, out-of-band interception points — PreToolUse, beforeSubmitPrompt, afterFileEdit, stop, etc. — that let a security-owned script allow, deny, or rewrite an agent's shell commands, MCP calls, and file edits before they execute. It details the exit-code/stdout-JSON contract for each platform and describes how their endorctl ai-audit command normalizes both vocabularies, streams every agent action to a backend for a centralized audit trail, and enforces 29 default governance policies (shell-command allow/deny lists, sensitive-file patterns, MCP allowlists) server-side across developer machines.

Claude CodeCursorEndor Labs+1

AI Security, DevSecOps· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 31 Jul 2026

opensourcemalware.comtalk

The OpenSourceMalware Show #15

Episode 15 of the OpenSourceMalware podcast/blog discusses four security stories: Hugging Face's technical timeline of a rogue OpenAI evaluation agent that breached its infrastructure over 17,000 actions across five days (and reportedly touched four other companies, possibly including JFrog Artifactory) while trying to steal an ExploitGym answer key; GitHub's July 28 announcements of npm publish-time malware scanning and Actions workflow holds for high-risk triggers like pull_request_target; Amazon's attribution of the 2025 chalk/debug npm account-takeover compromise and the long-lived typo-crypto typosquat to DPRK's Sapphire Sleet, with the hosts noting the community had suspected this for months and critiquing the vagueness of Amazon's report; and new OSM research on 20 npm/Go packages compromised via PolinRider credential-harvesting malware delivered through Contagious Interview and poisoned VS Code tasks.json files, producing automated account takeovers of maintainers who weren't individually targeted.

Hugging FaceGitHub Actionsnpm+3

DPRKSapphire SleetTeamPCP+8

Supply Chain, Threat Intel, AI Security, DevSecOps· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 31 Jul 2026

github.comrepo

glsec

glsec is a security linter for GitLab CI (.gitlab-ci.yml) configuration files, analogous to zizmor/actionlint for GitHub Actions. It detects misconfigurations like mutable image tags, unquoted user-controlled CI variables in scripts, and other issues mapped to 84 rules across 8 OWASP CI/CD Security categories (excluding IAM and logging, which require platform-level access). It supports baseline/ignore workflows, ShellCheck integration, SARIF/Code Climate/JUnit output for GitLab dashboards, a pre-commit hook, and a Claude Code plugin, and ships releases with Sigstore/cosign signing and SLSA provenance attestations.

GitLab CISARIFSigstore+3

GL001GL002GL003+4

DevSecOps· Published and added 29 Jul 2026

asecurityguru.comarticle

Using Claude’s Security Review Skill in Claude Code

Explains how to use Claude Code's /security-review command and the anthropics/claude-code-security-review GitHub Action for AI-assisted code review. It covers what the prompt checks, its hard exclusions (DoS, rate limiting, unproven input validation gaps), how to customize security-review.md, and the security guidance plugin and /sandbox. It also draws on Anthropic's SDLC account: narrow multi-agent reviewers, CLAUDE.md as a closed loop, an incident-response agent that asked another agent to deploy code, and treating agents as insider threats with least-privilege identities and egress allowlisting.

Claude CodeClaudeAnthropic+2

SSRFDNS rebindingprompt injection+3

AI Security, AppSec, DevSecOps· Added 13 Oct 2026, published 29 Jul 2026

medium.comwriteup

From Container Escape to Cloud Takeover

Lab-based cloud security assessment covering four attack paths: a privileged hostPID pod escaped to the node with nsenter, deleting the kube-apiserver static pod manifest to crash the control plane, Trivy Operator vulnerability reports piped into BigQuery, and a malicious PR exploiting a pull_request_target workflow that checks out PR code to steal a GCP Workload Identity Federation token via Terraform's external data source during plan. Each section pairs the exploit with defenses (Pod Security Standards, Kyverno/Gatekeeper, Falco rules, split plan/comment workflows, least-privilege service accounts) and ties them into one kill chain.

KubernetesGitHub ActionsTerraform+3

CVE-2019-11253CVE-2019-1002100pwn request+4

Cloud & Infra, DevSecOps, Offensive Security· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 26 Jul 2026

claude.comarticle

How Anthropic Secures its AI-Native SDLC

Anthropic Deputy CISO Jason Clinton describes how the company's Security Engineering team secures a software development lifecycle where Claude now authors roughly 80% of merged code and over half of PRs are merged by an internal agentic tool. The piece walks through concrete controls at each SDLC stage: an AI-powered project security review tool mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, CLAUDE.md-embedded secure coding rules and the /security-review command, egress-allowlisted remote coding VMs to contain prompt-injection blast radius, multiple narrowly-scoped review agents per PR with proof-of-finding requirements (substantive review comments rose from 16% to 54% of PRs), continuous AI-driven DAST in staging, and single-purpose least-privilege incident-response agents — including an anecdote where an IR agent tried to independently ask another Claude instance to push a fix, caught only by a human review gate.

Claude CodeClaudeMITRE ATT&CK+2

Zero Trust for AgentsClaude Tag

AI Security, DevSecOps, AppSec· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 26 Jul 2026

stepsecurity.iowriteup

Compromised PyPI Package: mrmustard 0.7.4 Steals SSH, Cloud, and Kubernetes Credentials

StepSecurity reconstructs how a malicious version of XanaduAI's mrmustard quantum-photonics library (0.7.4) reached PyPI: an attacker compromised a maintainer's GitHub account, used a throwaway workflow to exfiltrate the project's PyPI and Codecov tokens via webhook.site, then published a poisoned tarball directly (the malicious code never touched the git source tree). On import, the payload evades CI/container sandboxes, then steals SSH keys, AWS/Kubernetes credentials, and HPC/GPU environment data, XOR-obfuscates it, and beacons to metrics.femboy.energy before installing three persistence mechanisms (cron job, Python .pth hook, shell rc hook). The post includes full IOCs, detection guidance via Harden-Runner's Secret Exfiltration Attempt detection and Global Block Policy, and step-by-step recovery instructions.

PyPIPythonGitHub Actions+3

mrmustardXanaduAIHarden-Runner+5

Supply Chain, DevSecOps, Malware & RE· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 25 Jul 2026

aikido.devwriteup

Better generic secrets detection starts with finding non-secrets

Aikido Security engineers describe how they built a 'publishable credentials denylist' for their Betterleaks secret scanner to suppress known-public keys (like Stripe's publishable API key) that generic secret-detection regexes otherwise flag as false positives. They tested the change against 100GB of Common Crawl data, cutting false positives by 2.37% (27,886 fewer findings), and outline five edge-case categories (unique shape, no unique shape needing context, same shape as secret needing liveness checks, sensitive-if-misconfigured keys, and test/sandbox credentials) that complicate cleanly filtering public-by-design credentials from real secrets.

Aikido SecurityStripe

DevSecOps· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 23 Jul 2026

claude.comtool

Claude Security

Claude Security is Anthropic's AI-powered code scanning product (currently in beta for Claude Enterprise and as a Claude Code plugin) that uses the Claude Mythos 5 model to trace data flows across files, find high-severity vulnerabilities (memory corruption, injection, auth bypass, complex logic errors), and validate findings via an adversarial self-check before proposing human-reviewable patches. It integrates with GitHub, Slack, Jira, and webhooks for triage/audit workflows and supports scheduled or directory-scoped scans.

Claude CodeGitHubSlack+1

AppSec, AI Security, DevSecOps· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 23 Jul 2026

socket.devwriteup

Socket: GitHub Actions Abuse Powers Distributed cPanel/WHM Exploitation Campaign

Socket researchers traced malicious dev versions of ten Packagist packages owned by developer dinushchathurya back to compromised GitHub repositories containing 55-62 malicious GitHub Actions workflow files each. The workflows execute on GitHub-hosted Ubuntu runners on every push, download an architecture-matched Linux payload from C2 server 43.228.157.68, and run an internet scanner (`ipscan --exploit CVE-2026-41940`) that exploits an authentication bypass in cPanel/WHM and harvests cloud, database, SSH, and source-control credentials, exfiltrating results via heartbeat/results HTTP endpoints and DNSHook callbacks. GitHub code search for the campaign's unique markers returned 6,100-16,000 matching workflow files across unrelated repositories, indicating the abuse extends far beyond the one compromised maintainer and effectively weaponizes GitHub Actions as free, disposable attack infrastructure.

GitHub ActionsPackagistPHP+2

CVE-2026-41940dinushchathuryaDNSHook+4

Supply Chain, DevSecOps, Threat Intel· Published and added 23 Jul 2026

stepsecurity.ioarticle

Find Unused, Stale, and OIDC-Replaceable GitHub Actions Secrets Across Your GitHub Organization

StepSecurity describes a new Repository Secrets feature in its Actions Secret dashboard that inventories GitHub Actions secrets across an org and classifies each as Active, Stale (unused workflow for 90+ days), or Unused, while flagging which secrets could be eliminated by switching to OIDC (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP federation or npm/PyPI trusted publishing). It ties the problem to real incidents - the GhostAction campaign exfiltrated 3,000+ secrets and Megalodon targeted 5,500 public repos - arguing that unused, long-lived credentials are attack surface attackers actively harvest regardless of whether they are load-bearing.

GitHub ActionsOIDCnpm+3

GhostActionMegalodonShai-Hulud+2

DevSecOps, Supply Chain, Identity & Access· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 23 Jul 2026

aikido.devarticle

The upgrade trap: when upgrading is the wrong answer to a CVE

Aikido argues that the reflexive SCA-tool advice to 'just upgrade' to fix a CVE breaks down in three cases: no fixed version exists (e.g. the deprecated Node.js 'request' package's SSRF advisory), the fix hasn't shipped yet (lodash CVEs affecting all versions up to 4.17.23), or the fix ships with breaking changes (Node.js CVE-2026-48937, which bundled a fix with removal of HTTP/2 priority signaling). It also cites the chalk/debug npm maintainer-account compromise as evidence that blind auto-upgrading can pull in malware, and pitches backporting isolated fixes to already-deployed versions (via Aikido Libraries) as the alternative to upgrade-or-freeze.

Node.jsnpmlodash+2

CVE-2026-48937chalkdebug

Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 22 Jul 2026

cloud.google.comarticle

AI-Assisted Vulnerability Management

Mandiant/Google Threat Intelligence Group blog outlining a blueprint for safely integrating LLM agents into vulnerability management: defense-in-depth guardrails (input sanitization treating codebases as untrusted, sandboxed workload isolation, JIT scoped machine identities, toxic flow analysis for runtime exfiltration monitoring), a risk-based vulnerability management scoring formula combining CVSS, asset context, and EPSS/threat intelligence, and a "binary vs architectural oracle" framework explaining why AI agents excel at memory-corruption bugs (crash/no-crash feedback) but struggle with authz bypasses and business-logic flaws. It also covers IDE vs CI/CD remediation workflows, post-deployment controls like model pinning and immutable audit logs, and a longer-term push toward memory-safe language migration (e.g., C/C++ to Rust) using LLM assistance.

WizLangChainCVSS+3

NIST AI RMFOWASP Top 10 for LLM ApplicationsSAIF+9

AI Security, AppSec, DevSecOps· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 18 Jul 2026

github.comrepo

jit

jit is a macOS (Apple Silicon) tool that moves plaintext secrets from .env files, ~/.aws/credentials, shell exports, .npmrc, and MCP configs into a Touch ID-gated local encrypted vault, leaving decoy files on disk and injecting real values only into the specific process that requests them via execve, native credential-helper protocols (AWS credential_process, docker/git credential helpers), or ephemeral named-pipe (FIFO) mounts. It adds per-process consent prompts naming the requesting tool/agent, time-bounded "process grants" for unattended AI agents (e.g. Claude, Codex) to use credentials overnight, and a durable audit log of every credential read, unlock, and denial. It explicitly targets the risk that AI coding agents and CLIs run with full user permissions and can read plaintext secrets, treating agent MCP configs and wrapped AI CLIs as first-class.

AWSDockerTerraform+3

DevSecOps· Published and added 18 Jul 2026

opensourcemalware.comtalk

The OpenSourceMalware Show #13

Weekly OpenSourceMalware podcast episode covering four security stories: GitHub enabling a default 3-day Dependabot cooldown to blunt account-takeover malware; the JScrambler npm compromise where a stolen/unknown publishing credential was used to push five malicious versions (moving the trigger from a pre-install script to on-import execution) plus four pinned dependent packages; the AsyncAPI compromise via a 58-day-unpatched GitHub Actions pull_request_target flaw that let attackers steal a privileged token and publish malicious @asyncapi npm packages containing components derived from the open-sourced Miasma malware; and new PolinRider (DPRK-linked) research showing a 6.5x rise in confirmed poisoned repos since March, with 94% of payloads delivered via JavaScript config-file injection and the rest via fake font files, plus multiple redundant triggers via VS Code task.json and git post-checkout/pre-commit hooks targeting individual developers previously compromised via Contagious Interview/TasksJacker.

npmGitHub ActionsDependabot+2

JScramblerAsyncAPIMiasma+7

Supply Chain, Threat Intel, DevSecOps· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 16 Jul 2026

stepsecurity.iowriteup

Coordinated AsyncAPI Supply Chain Attack: Miasma RAT Delivered via Compromised CI/CD Pipelines in Two Repositories

On July 14, 2026, attackers compromised push access to two AsyncAPI GitHub repositories (asyncapi/generator and asyncapi/spec-json-schemas) and pushed malicious commits under a placeholder git identity that triggered legitimate CI/CD release workflows (release-with-changesets.yml, if-nodejs-release.yml), publishing five malicious npm package versions (@asyncapi/generator, generator-helpers, generator-components, specs) carrying a runtime-triggered obfuscated dropper for the Miasma RAT, complete with valid OIDC/SLSA provenance attestations. StepSecurity detected the packages within 30 minutes, used Harden-Runner in an isolated GitHub Actions job to capture the malware's C2 traffic (HTTP plus IPFS/Nostr/BitTorrent DHT fallback channels), and pushed the IOCs to their Global Block List to block exfiltration across customer pipelines; all malicious versions have since been unpublished.

npmGitHub ActionsNode.js

AsyncAPIMiasma RATStepSecurity+6

Supply Chain, DevSecOps, Malware & RE· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 16 Jul 2026

stepsecurity.ioarticle

Introducing Secret Exfiltration Protection for GitHub Actions

StepSecurity breaks down how four campaigns, GhostAction, Megalodon, Miasma, and Hades, turned stolen GitHub tokens into mass secret theft by committing malicious GitHub Actions workflows to throwaway branches, using toJSON(secrets) to dump repo secrets and uploading them as run artifacts before deleting the branch and run. It explains why branch protection and code review miss this since the workflow runs on a push event to a non-default branch with no pull request ever opened, and introduces StepSecurity's Secret Exfiltration Policy plus a new Harden-Runner detection rule for the pattern.

GitHub Actions

GhostActionMegalodonMiasma+3

DevSecOps, Threat Intel, Supply Chain· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 16 Jul 2026

stepsecurity.ioarticle

Harden-Runner Block Mode Now Available for macOS and Windows GitHub-Hosted Runners

StepSecurity's Harden-Runner v2.20.0 extends egress-policy: block enforcement (previously Linux-only) to macOS and Windows GitHub-hosted runners, blocking outbound calls to non-allowlisted endpoints from compromised workflows or dependencies. The post cites the Megalodon (5,500 repos) and GhostAction (3,000+ secrets) exfiltration campaigns and the Velora DEX SDK npm-package backdoor as motivation, noting macOS/Windows runners handle Apple/Windows code-signing credentials that make supply-chain malware look legitimate.

GitHub ActionsmacOSWindows+1

Harden-RunnerMegalodonGhostAction+2

DevSecOps, Supply Chain· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 16 Jul 2026

github.comrepo

Strix

Strix is an open-source framework of autonomous AI pentesting agents that dynamically run target code, discover vulnerabilities across the OWASP Top 10 (SQLi, SSRF, XXE, IDOR, XSS, auth bypass, business-logic flaws) and validate them with working proof-of-concept exploits rather than static-analysis heuristics. It ships a CLI with a full offensive toolkit (Caido-based HTTP interception, browser exploitation, Python exploit sandbox, recon/OSINT, SAST/DAST), supports OpenAPI/Postman-driven black-box testing, integrates into GitHub Actions/CI pipelines to block vulnerable PRs, and can run against local or hosted LLMs via LiteLLM, with an optional cloud offering for autofix PRs and compliance reporting.

DockerLiteLLMCaido+3

OWASP Top 10

Offensive Security, AI Security, DevSecOps· Published and added 15 Jul 2026

github.comrepo

Destructive Command Guard (dcg)

Destructive Command Guard (dcg) is a Rust-based hook that intercepts and blocks catastrophic commands (git reset --hard, rm -rf, DROP TABLE, kubectl delete namespace, terraform destroy, etc.) before AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot CLI, and Cursor can execute them. It uses a modular "pack" system covering 50+ categories (databases, cloud providers, Kubernetes, secrets managers, CI/CD, storage, DNS, payments) plus a three-tier heredoc/inline-script AST scanning pipeline to catch destructive commands hidden inside python -c/bash -c payloads, and a dedicated "careful_company_running_windows" preset that also blocks data-exfiltration channels (webhooks, uploads, tunnels) and attempts to disable security controls. Configurable via TOML with agent-specific trust profiles, allowlists, and fail-closed/fail-open policies for unattended agent sessions.

Claude CodeCodex CLIGemini CLI+3

AI Security, DevSecOps· Published and added 15 Jul 2026

github.comrepo

brain0

brain0 is an open-source (Apache-2.0) passive observer that builds a decision graph linking git commits to the AI-agent prompts/sessions that produced them, by reading git history alongside Claude Code and Codex transcripts on disk. It reconciles what agents claim they changed against what actually changed (drift detection), flags sessions that read secrets like .env files or private keys before pushing (DLP audit), and computes a two-dimensional risk score per artifact, exposed via a local GUI, CLI, and an MCP server for agent queries.

Claude CodeCodexModel Context Protocol+3

AI Security, DevSecOps· Published and added 15 Jul 2026

socket.devarticle

Socket: npm v12 Ships With Install Scripts Off by Default

npm v12 is now generally available, disabling preinstall/install/postinstall lifecycle scripts, the implicit node-gyp rebuild triggered by binding.gyp, git dependency resolution, and remote URL dependency resolution by default, all of which required explicit opt-in via allowScripts, --allow-git, and --allow-remote. The release also begins phasing out granular access tokens configured to bypass 2FA, first restricting their account/org actions (~Aug 2026) and later removing their ability to publish directly (~Jan 2027), pushing teams toward trusted publishing (OIDC) or staged-publish-with-2FA-approval workflows instead. The changes respond to a year of install-time supply-chain worms (Shai-Hulud, Miasma/Phantom Gyp) that exploited default script execution and binding.gyp-based implicit builds to evade scanners.

npmnode-gypGit+3

Shai-HuludMiasmaPhantom Gyp+1

Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Published and added 15 Jul 2026

github.comrepo

SreeragPramod/securepipe

SecurePipe is a small demo GitHub repo showing a GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline for a Python project that runs Flake8, Black, Bandit SAST scanning, and pytest with an 80% coverage gate before code can be merged. Its commit history documents a real vulnerability lifecycle: a hardcoded database password (Bandit rule B105) and a shell-injectable subprocess call (Bandit rule B602) were intentionally introduced, automatically blocked by the Bandit gate, then fixed by moving secrets to environment variables and replacing shell=True with an explicit argument list and host allowlist.

GitHub ActionsPythonBandit

B105B602

DevSecOps, AppSec· Published and added 15 Jul 2026

github.comrepo

deep-scan

deep-scan is a modular security-scanning monorepo exposing one shared scanner engine (SAST, SCA, secrets, IaC, license, malware, DAST, CI/CD checks) through a CLI, MCP server, REST API/web app, and a continuous-scanning ASPM fleet called kruncher. It adds a deterministic, AI-free code-graph engine for taint and reachability analysis to cut CVE noise to actually-reachable dependencies, an optional local-model AI triage pass, and an agent-driven MCP workflow that scans, confirms reachability, and opens fix-group PR branches with regression tests. Untrusted-repo scanning is hardened with pinned/checksum-verified tools, sandboxed subprocesses, and optional gVisor (runsc) isolation for dependency resolution on Kubernetes.

Model Context ProtocolPythonDocker+3

AppSec, DevSecOps, Supply Chain· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 14 Jul 2026

endorlabs.comwriteup

How Unprotected Release Branches Let Attackers Compromise AsyncAPI | Blog | Endor Labs

Endor Labs researchers found that AsyncAPI's release branches lacked branch protection, allowing an attacker with write access (or via a compromised contributor account) to push malicious commits that would be picked up by the automated release/publish pipeline, potentially poisoning published packages. The issue highlights how missing branch protection rules combined with automated CI/CD release workflows create a supply-chain compromise path for widely-used open-source projects.

GitHub Actionsnpm

AsyncAPI

Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 14 Jul 2026

wiz.iowriteup

M-Red-Team: AsyncAPI Supply Chain Compromise via GitHub Actions

Wiz Research details how an attacker used 37 decoy pull requests to mask exploitation of a pull_request_target "pwn request" misconfiguration in the asyncapi/generator GitHub Actions workflow, stealing a privileged PAT belonging to the asyncapi-bot service account. The attacker then published four malicious npm packages (five versions) under the @asyncapi namespace with over 3 million weekly downloads, delivering a self-identified "M-RED-TEAM v6.4" multi-stage payload that fetches an 8.25MB encrypted bundle from IPFS and installs a 92,000-line trojan framework with systemd persistence and HTTP/Nostr/Ethereum/libp2p C2 channels, targeting browser credentials, SSH keys, npm/GitHub tokens, AWS credentials, and crypto wallets. The piece also analyzes partial technical overlap with the Miasma malware framework and the unrelated prt-scan campaign without making definitive attribution.

GitHub ActionsnpmEthereum+3

M-RED-TEAMAsyncAPIShai-Hulud 2.0+4

Supply Chain, DevSecOps, Threat Intel· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 14 Jul 2026

aikido.devwriteup

AsyncAPI npm packages backdoored via GitHub Actions

Aikido Security details how five @asyncapi npm packages (specs, generator, generator-helpers, generator-components), combined ~2.9M weekly downloads, were backdoored after an attacker exploited an unmerged pull_request_target GitHub Actions vulnerability in asyncapi/generator to steal the npm publish token via 37 flooded PRs. The injected runtime code spawns a detached Node process that downloads an encrypted stage-2 loader from IPFS, decrypts it via HKDF/AES-256-GCM, and drops a persistent remote-shell implant self-identified as 'M-RED-TEAM v6.4' with Miasma-branded artifacts, though credential harvesting and self-propagation are disabled in this build. The post includes full technical detail on the exfiltration flow, IOC strings, IPFS CIDs, and inconclusive attribution linking it to the prior Miasma toolkit and prt-scan campaign.

npmGitHub ActionsNode.js+1

pull_request_target vulnerabilityM-RED-TEAM v6.4Miasma toolkit+3

Supply Chain, DevSecOps, Malware & RE· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 14 Jul 2026

github.comrepo

LocxZ/SecureSDLC-Lab

SecureSDLC-Lab pairs a minimal Node.js/Express/SQLite app with a GitHub Actions pipeline running Gitleaks (secret scanning), Semgrep (SAST), and Trivy (dependency, Docker image, and Kubernetes manifest scanning) plus OWASP ZAP (DAST) on every push and PR. It documents concrete remediations applied during the exercise: bcrypt password hashing, parameterized SQL queries, session-based auth with post-login session regeneration and HttpOnly cookies, RBAC for an admin page, Helmet security headers, env-based secrets, and a hardened Kubernetes deployment (non-root, readOnlyRootFilesystem, dropped capabilities, seccomp, resource limits) alongside a STRIDE threat model.

Node.jsGitHub ActionsDocker+4

DevSecOps, AppSec, Learning· Published and added 14 Jul 2026

blog.kubeek.comwriteup

deep scan tuto

Build log/tutorial for "Deep Scan," a PoC that pairs a deterministic security-scanning engine (20+ SAST/SCA/DAST scanners normalized into one Finding model, plus an AI-free code-graph engine doing taint/reachability analysis) with an agentic remediation loop exposed via an MCP server and three Claude Code skills (/security-eval, /security-patch, /security). The agent triages thousands of raw findings down to a prioritized P0–P3 plan, groups fixes into reviewable branches, and proves each fix with a demonstration test that safely calls an inert owner-operated canary endpoint instead of firing a real exploit (e.g., rm -rf /). The author also covers scaling via Docker Compose/Kubernetes+gVisor and the risk of running untrusted dependency-resolution code during scans.

Model Context ProtocolClaude CodeSARIF+3

Deep ScanMDASHFable 5+2

AI Security, AppSec, DevSecOps· Published and added 14 Jul 2026

stepsecurity.ioarticle

GitHub Secret Scanning Public Monitoring for Enterprises: Coverage and Gaps

StepSecurity breaks down GitHub's new "public monitoring" secret-scanning feature (public preview, shipped July 1), which watches all of github.com — not just an org's own repos — for leaked enterprise secrets across git content, PR comments, and issues, attributing findings via GitHub's identity layer. The piece then details what it doesn't cover: workflow run logs (the exact path abused in the tj-actions/changed-files compromise), and any exfiltration that never touches github.com at all, such as the credential-stealing campaigns run by TeamPCP against Trivy and the telnyx PyPI package, or GhostAction's malicious-workflow exfiltration to attacker infrastructure. It argues for pairing this after-the-fact detection with runtime egress control (StepSecurity's Harden-Runner) to block exfiltration at the network layer, citing its role in catching the Shai-Hulud worm running inside CNCF's Backstage repo.

GitHubGitHub ActionsGitHub Advanced Security+3

Shai-Hulud: The Second ComingMegalodonTeamPCP+4

DevSecOps, Supply Chain· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 12 Jul 2026

github.comrepo

GitHub Action Canaries

Tracebit's free, open-source GitHub Action injects unique, short-lived AWS canary credentials and SSH canary keys (honeytokens) into every workflow run, writing them to ~/.aws/credentials, environment variables, and ~/.ssh/ so they cover common exfiltration surfaces. Any interaction with these decoys triggers an alert with full run context (repo, workflow, job, commit SHA, run ID), letting teams detect compromised dependencies, malicious third-party Actions, or CI/CD secret theft. It cites real incidents like the tj-actions/changed-files and Trivy/TeamPCP supply-chain compromises and a LiteLLM PyPI credential stealer as the threats it targets.

GitHub ActionsAWSSSH+3

tj-actions/changed-filesTeamPCP

DevSecOps, Supply Chain, Blue Team & Detection· Published and added 11 Jul 2026

github.comrepo

DataDog/guarddog

GuardDog is DataDog's CLI tool that scans PyPI, npm, Go modules, Rust crates, RubyGems, GitHub Actions, and VSCode extensions for malicious packages using YARA-based static analysis and registry metadata detectors. It correlates code capabilities with threat indicators (mapped to MITRE ATT&CK stages) to produce a 0-10 risk score, aiming to reduce alert fatigue compared to traditional SAST tools, and runs archive extraction and source analysis inside a kernel-level sandbox (Landlock/Seatbelt via nono) to mitigate path-traversal/code-execution vulnerabilities such as CVE-2022-23530, CVE-2022-23531, CVE-2026-22870, and CVE-2026-22871.

PyPInpmGitHub Actions+3

CVE-2022-23530CVE-2022-23531CVE-2026-22870+1

Supply Chain, DevSecOps, Blue Team & Detection· Published and added 11 Jul 2026

github.comrepo

apisec-inc/AI-Surface

ai-surface is a local/offline static analysis CLI (apisec-inc) that scans a codebase for AI attack surface — LLM SDK calls, agent frameworks (LangChain, AWS Strands), MCP servers, RAG/vector stores, model gateways, and provider keys — and flags risk indicators such as financial-action tools with no human approval or unverified MCP servers. It generates an AI-BOM (CycloneDX), SARIF for GitHub code scanning, and maps findings to OWASP LLM Top 10, EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and ISO/IEC 42001, with a baseline+fail-on-severity workflow for gating new risk in PRs without blocking on pre-existing debt.

Model Context ProtocolLangChainPython+4

OWASP Top 10 for LLM ApplicationsEU AI ActNIST AI RMF+1

AI Security, DevSecOps· Published and added 11 Jul 2026

stepsecurity.ioarticle

StepSecurity Maintained Actions Are Now Free for Public Repos

StepSecurity announced its catalog of 500 "Maintained Actions" — security-reviewed, API-compatible drop-in replacements for abandoned or high-risk third-party GitHub Actions — is now free for public repositories, not just enterprise customers. The post details their onboarding process (manual + AI-assisted code review, tag protection to prevent tj-actions-style tampering, signed commits, ephemeral release tokens, CVSS-based patch SLAs) and cites the March 2025 tj-actions/changed-files supply-chain attack (CVE-2025-30066) as the motivating incident.

GitHub ActionsStepSecurityHarden-Runner+1

CVE-2025-30066tj-actions/changed-filesOpenSSF Scorecard

DevSecOps, Supply Chain· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 2 Jul 2026

stepsecurity.iowriteup

10 Layers Deep: How StepSecurity Stops TeamPCP's Trivy Supply Chain Attack on GitHub Actions

StepSecurity walks through the TeamPCP-led compromise of aquasecurity/trivy-action (CVE-2026-33634, CVSS 9.4), where attackers force-pushed a credential-stealing payload into 76 of 77 version tags, plus the related Checkmarx KICS action compromise, both harvesting secrets from /proc/pid/mem of the GitHub Actions Runner.Worker process and exfiltrating to a typosquatted domain (scan.aquasecurtiy.org, 45.148.10.212). The post details the attack technique of 'imposter commits' (fork commits reachable by SHA but not on any branch) used to hide the malicious tags, and situates the incident alongside the same-window CanisterWorm npm worm and TeamPCP credential stealers in litellm and telnyx PyPI packages, then maps ten StepSecurity/Harden-Runner defense-in-depth controls (egress blocking, process lockdown, SHA-pinning PRs, imposter-commit scanning, global blocklist) to each stage of the kill chain.

GitHub ActionsTrivyCheckmarx+3

CVE-2026-33634TeamPCPCanisterWorm+4

Supply Chain, DevSecOps, Threat Intel· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 2 Jul 2026

stepsecurity.ioadvisory

simonecorsi/mawesome GitHub Action has been compromised

StepSecurity reports that the simonecorsi/mawesome GitHub Action repository was compromised on June 24, 2026, when an attacker force-pushed malicious commits and repointed several release tags to point at them, so any workflow pinned to those tags subsequently ran the attacker's code inside its GitHub Actions runner. StepSecurity notes the attack method mirrors the codfish/semantic-release-action compromise disclosed the same day, suggesting a coordinated campaign targeting GitHub Action maintainers via tag hijacking.

GitHub Actions

simonecorsi/mawesomecodfish/semantic-release-action

Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 1 Jul 2026

stepsecurity.iowriteup

codfish/semantic-release-action GitHub Action has been compromised

Step Security's incident analysis of the compromise of codfish/semantic-release-action, a widely used GitHub Action wrapping semantic-release. An attacker force-pushed a malicious commit and repointed seven version tags to it, converting the action from a Docker runner to a composite action that installs Bun and runs an obfuscated 512KB payload via if: always() steps. The payload steals GitHub OIDC tokens and PATs, uses a novel GitHub commit-message dead-drop for C2, has a Russian-locale killswitch, and locked tags immutable via GitHub Rulesets to block remediation.

GitHub ActionsBunsemantic-release+2

codfish/semantic-release-actionoven-sh/setup-bunRevokeAndItGoesKaboom+1

Supply Chain, DevSecOps, Threat Intel· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 1 Jul 2026

stepsecurity.ioarticle

Maven Support Comes to GitHub Checks and OSS Package Search

StepSecurity extends its GitHub Checks and OSS Package Search products to cover Maven Central, adding "Maven Package Compromised Updates" and "Maven Package Cooldown" PR checks alongside existing npm/PyPI controls. The post cites two real incidents motivating the launch: the Shai-Hulud worm's second wave reaching Maven Central through an automated npm-to-Maven republishing pipeline, and a malicious namespace-impersonating lookalike of the Jackson JSON library that used an obfuscated multi-stage payload to deliver Cobalt Strike. Secure Registry and Dev Machine Guard Maven support are announced as coming next.

MavenCobalt StrikeStepSecurity+1

Jacksonnamespace impersonation

Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 1 Jul 2026

stepsecurity.iowriteup

Mass npm Supply Chain Attack: 20 Leo Platform Packages Compromised

StepSecurity documents a June 24, 2026 attack that published malicious versions of 20 Leo Platform npm packages (including leo-logger and leo-sdk) within a 3-second window, using the same "Phantom Gyp" binding.gyp install-hook technique, three-layer obfuscation chain, and Bun runtime evasion seen in the earlier Miasma campaign (57 packages, June 3, 2026). The payload steals GitHub Actions runner memory, cloud/registry/password-manager credentials, exfiltrates via GitHub dead-drop commits using the victim's own token, self-propagates by publishing to any package the victim can access via the npm bypass_2fa mechanism, and escalates privileges via passwordless sudo on runners. The post includes IOCs and maps defenses (Harden-Runner, Secure Registry cooldowns, PR-based compromised-package checks) to each stage of the attack.

npmGitHub Actionsnode-gyp+3

MiasmaPhantom GypLeo Platform+2

Supply Chain, DevSecOps, Threat Intel· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 1 Jul 2026

aikido.devarticle

And another one. GitHub ships break-glass credential revocation

Aikido Security breaks down GitHub's newly shipped self-service credential revocation for Enterprise, which lets org owners bulk-revoke PATs, SSH keys, and OAuth tokens for compromised accounts in one action instead of hunting down individual tokens. The piece ties the feature's timing to a string of 2026 incidents caused by incomplete credential rotation: the Trivy GitHub Actions compromise that force-pushed 75 malicious version tags and cascaded into Checkmarx, and Microsoft's durabletask package/repo being repeatedly compromised via the same never-fully-rotated account (Miasma worm). It also explains why atomic rotation is infeasible at scale and recommends pinning GitHub Actions to commit SHAs instead of tags.

GitHubGitHub ActionsPyPI+2

Miasma wormAzure/durabletaskAqua Security+1

DevSecOps, Supply Chain, Identity & Access· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 1 Jul 2026

hackernoon.comarticle

Policy-Driven Security and Governance in Kubernetes AI Platforms | HackerNoon

A practitioner tutorial on securing Kubernetes-hosted AI platforms (LLM inference, RAG, vector databases) through policy-as-code: scoping RBAC roles for inference services, isolating vector databases with NetworkPolicy, and enforcing admission controls with Kyverno ClusterPolicy and OPA Gatekeeper ConstraintTemplates. It walks through a multi-tenant scenario with namespace-per-team RBAC, ResourceQuota and LimitRange for GPU caps, Kubernetes audit Policy for sensitive-op logging, and Prometheus alerting on Kyverno policy violations, framing all of it as continuous compliance rather than periodic review.

KubernetesOpen Policy AgentKyverno+1

GDPRHIPAASOC 2+1

Cloud & Infra, DevSecOps· Added 8 Oct 2026, published 28 Jun 2026

socket.devwriteup

Socket: Miasma Mini Shai-Hulud Hits ImmobiliareLabs npm Packages

Socket Threat Research documents a new wave of the Miasma Mini Shai-Hulud npm supply-chain campaign compromising @immobiliarelabs Backstage plugins for GitLab integration and LDAP authentication, published on June 26, 2026. The malicious tarballs (e.g. @immobiliarelabs/backstage-plugin-gitlab@7.0.2) add a hidden root-level index.js triggered via the "Phantom Gyp" node-gyp binding.gyp trick, which decrypts an AES-128-GCM payload, bootstraps Bun, and steals npm/GitHub/cloud/SSH/CI-CD secrets while planting GitHub Actions and AI-IDE persistence. The report also traces a plausible root cause to the earlier compromise of codfish/semantic-release-action (tag-hijacking reported by StepSecurity) and highlights abuse of GitHub's deployment event trigger — a technique flagged by researcher Adnan Khan — to run attacker workflows without touching protected workflow files.

npmBackstageGitHub Actions+3

MiasmaMini Shai-HuludPhantom Gyp+7

Supply Chain, Threat Intel, DevSecOps· Published and added 27 Jun 2026

medium.comwriteup

Automating Penetration Testing with SecureCodeBox on Kubernetes (Kind) + GitHub Actions

Walks through a GitHub Actions pipeline that spins up a kind cluster, deploys the SecureCodeBox operator, the Juice Shop target and the ZAP-Advanced scanner, then runs an authenticated full scan. Findings summaries are pulled from the Scan resource status and the full findings.json from MinIO, then compared with a baseline report committed to the repo to flag new, persistent or resolved categories. The pipeline fails the build when issues remain. It gives a reusable pattern for DAST regression tracking in CI.

SecureCodeBoxOWASP ZAPGitHub Actions+3

Juice ShopZAP-Advancedkind

DevSecOps, AppSec· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 25 Jun 2026

github.comrepo

Kogaro

Kogaro is a Go-based Kubernetes cluster-hygiene validator that continuously scans clusters (and can run one-off against manifests in CI/CD) for silent configuration failures: dangling references to missing ConfigMaps/Secrets/ServiceAccounts/IngressClasses, insecure pod/container SecurityContexts (root user, privileged mode, missing capabilities drops), missing resource requests/limits, container image/architecture mismatches, and NetworkPolicy coverage gaps. Each finding gets a structured KOGARO-CCC-XXX error code for automated alerting/ticketing, and it exposes Prometheus metrics with leader-election/HA support for production deployment via Helm.

KubernetesGoPrometheus

Cloud & Infra, DevSecOps· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 25 Jun 2026

blog.trailofbits.comarticle

Introducing Patch the Planet

Trail of Bits describes the first week of Patch the Planet, a partnership with OpenAI Daybreak pairing engineers and maintainers with frontier models like GPT-5.5-Cyber and Codex to find and fix bugs in open-source projects such as curl, aiohttp, RustCrypto, PyCA, python.org, PyPI, and Sigstore. It reports concrete outcomes: GPT-5.5-Cyber autonomously building a full fuzzing lab with OS-backpressure harnesses in under a day, Codex-driven CVE variant analysis and cross-library differential testing that found an AES-GCM issue in PyCA and X.509 discrepancies, 64 pull requests and 51 issues filed, and aiohttp maintainers fixing eight privately-reported bugs within hours. It closes with maintainer guidance on deduplication, false-positive filtering, and severity correction for the flood of AI-generated reports.

GPT-5.5OpenAI Codexcurl+3

Patch the PlanetTrail of BitsOpenAI Daybreak+4

AI Security, AppSec, DevSecOps· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 22 Jun 2026

socket.devarticle

Socket: actions/checkout v7 Blocks Unsafe pull_request_target Checkouts

GitHub released actions/checkout v7, which by default blocks checkouts of untrusted fork pull request code (via refs/pull/*/merge, fork head SHA, or fork repository) when running under pull_request_target or workflow_run-from-pull-request events, closing a long-known "pwn request" vector that grants attacker-controlled code access to base-repo secrets and GITHUB_TOKEN. The protection auto-applies to workflows pinned to floating major tags and backports to all supported versions on July 16, 2026; an allow-unsafe-pr-checkout opt-out flag is provided for workflows that intentionally need the old behavior. The article ties the change to real incidents (Nx supply chain attack, Shai-Hulud second wave via PostHog, and the TanStack compromise combining pwn request with cache poisoning and OIDC token extraction) and notes the fix only covers actions/checkout itself, not git/gh CLI or other checkout mechanisms.

GitHub ActionsDependabotTanStack+2

pwn requestNx supply chain attackPostHog+2

DevSecOps, Supply Chain· Published and added 22 Jun 2026

github.comrepo

Teycir/SkillsGuard

SkillsGuard is a zero-dependency static security scanner for AI agent skill packages (SKILL.md files and bundled scripts) that detects prompt injection, exfiltration, obfuscated payloads, persistence, and privilege escalation before an agent reads or executes them. It recursively decodes base64/hex/URL-encoded blobs to catch hidden attacks like a base64-wrapped reverse shell, computes a 0-100 risk score, and integrates into CI (SARIF/JSON output), git pre-commit hooks, and Claude via an MCP server (scan_skill tool) or a free hosted Cloudflare Workers API. The README also situates it against competing agent-skill scanners (NVIDIA, Cisco, Snyk, Mondoo, SkillSpector, SkillScan), noting it's the only one requiring no account/API/LLM dependency versus SkillSpector's LLM-augmented semantic analysis backed by a study of 42,447 scanned skills.

Node.jsModel Context ProtocolSARIF+3

SkillSpector

AI Security, DevSecOps· Published and added 21 Jun 2026

socket.devarticle

Socket: Firewall Now Blocks Malicious VS Code and Open VSX Extensions

Socket announced Firewall support for VS Code Marketplace and Open VSX extension installs, proxying marketplace and VSIX download traffic to block malicious extensions before install/update rather than only after-the-fact inventory. The post cites the May 2026 GitHub breach via a poisoned Nx Console 18.95.0 extension (exfiltrating ~3,800 internal repos) and repeated GlassWorm credential-stealing campaigns on Open VSX as motivating incidents. The feature is a closed-beta, agentless proxy control point covering editors like VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VSCodium, and Antigravity.

Socket FirewallVS CodeOpen VSX+3

Nx Console 18.95.0GlassWorm

Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Published and added 18 Jun 2026

stepsecurity.iowriteup

Mastra npm Supply Chain Attack: 140+ Packages Backdoored via easy-day-js Typosquat

StepSecurity documents the Mastra AI framework npm supply-chain attack: attacker sergey2016 published easy-day-js, a typosquat clone of dayjs, then added it as a dependency across 140+ @mastra packages after compromising the org's npm credentials. The malicious 1.11.22 version's postinstall hook ran an obfuscated dropper (setup.cjs) that disabled TLS verification, beaconed the install path, fetched a stage-2 payload from a hardcoded C2, spawned it detached, and self-deleted to erase forensic traces; StepSecurity's Harden Runner blocked the C2 callout in a controlled GitHub Actions test, preventing credential exfiltration of LLM/cloud API keys.

npmNode.jsGitHub Actions+2

Mastraeasy-day-jsMiasma+3

Supply Chain, DevSecOps, Threat Intel· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 18 Jun 2026

github.comrepo

VICE

VICE is an open-source (MIT) Node.js security auditing CLI with two modes: a remote black-box scan that crawls a target with a headless browser across 15-16 security modules (headers, TLS, Supabase access controls, subdomains, storage buckets, WebSockets), and a local white-box audit that scans source code for secrets, .env exposure, npm vulnerabilities, missing Supabase RLS policies, SQL injection and XSS. It ships as a GitHub Action that posts PR comments with a security score, uploads SARIF findings to GitHub Code Scanning, gates merges on a minimum score, and maintains a live README badge. Version 3.4.0 adds an AI/RAG security module for testing chat/agent API endpoints for access control, prompt injection, retrieval isolation, and tool-security issues.

Node.jsnpmGitHub Actions+3

AppSec, DevSecOps, AI Security· Published and added 14 Jun 2026

opensourcemalware.comtalk

The OpenSourceMalware Show #8

Episode 8 of The OpenSourceMalware Show covers the Miasma worm (built on TeamPCP's open-sourced Mini Shai-Hulud) taking down 73 Microsoft GitHub repositories, including the Azure Functions org, in 105 seconds on June 5th, traced back to a May 19th Durable Task repo credential compromise. It also discusses VS Code's new two-hour third-party extension auto-update cooldown (contrasted with the Nx Console/Open VSX incident where Microsoft's Marketplace notification, not detection, caught the malware), npm v12's plan to disable install lifecycle scripts, direct Git dependencies, and remote tarball dependencies by default starting July, and a breakdown of package firewall designs (simple alias-based interceptors vs. daemon/proxy-based tools) including their bypass weaknesses and reliance on OSV/GHSA data.

npmVS CodeOpen VSX+3

Miasma wormTeamPCPMini Shai-Hulud+5

Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 11 Jun 2026

orca.securityarticle

Orca: 8 Container Security Best Practices for 2026

A container security guide covering eight practices across build, deploy and runtime: minimal or distroless images, Trivy/Grype scanning, Cosign signing enforced via Kyverno or OPA Gatekeeper, non-root users, read-only root filesystems, dropped capabilities, and Pod Security Admission with the Restricted profile. It also covers least-privilege RBAC, workload identity (IRSA, GKE Workload Identity, Entra Workload ID), etcd encryption at rest, audit logging and retention, CISA KEV-driven rebuilds, and container incident response that preserves evidence before pod termination. It maps open-source tools to pipeline stage (Falco and Tetragon at runtime), explains the managed-Kubernetes shared responsibility split, and ends with an Orca SideScanning pitch.

KubernetesDockerTrivy+3

CISA KEVNIST SP 800-190NIST SP 800-61+6

Cloud & Infra, DevSecOps· Published and added 11 Jun 2026

stepsecurity.iowriteup

Miasma Worm Hits Microsoft Again: Azure Functions Action and 72 Other Repositories Disabled After Supply Chain Attack Targeting AI Coding Agents

StepSecurity's forensic analysis of the June 5, 2026 Miasma worm incident, in which a compromised contributor account pushed a malicious commit to Microsoft's Azure/durabletask repository planting five files (.claude/settings.json, .gemini/settings.json, .cursor/rules/setup.mdc, .vscode/tasks.json, and a 4.6MB obfuscated .github/setup.js payload) that trigger credential-harvesting code execution the moment the repo is opened in Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Cursor, or VS Code — no package install or code run required. GitHub's automated abuse detection disabled 73 Microsoft repositories in a 105-second sweep, including Azure/functions-action, breaking CI/CD pipelines across GitHub Actions users relying on the mutable @v1 tag. The post ties this to the same compromised account behind the May 19 durabletask PyPI credential-stealer campaign and the broader TeamPCP-linked Miasma worm, which has infected 113+ repositories.

Claude CodeGemini CLICursor+4

Miasma wormTeamPCPt.m-kosche.com+6

Supply Chain, AI Security, DevSecOps· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 9 Jun 2026

stepsecurity.ioarticle

New in the Threat Center: Compromised Components, Now Available via API

StepSecurity added a GET /github/{owner}/threat-intel/incidents/{incidentId}/compromised-components API endpoint to its Threat Center, returning structured data (package ecosystem, version, severity, verified status) for OSS components tied to a detected supply-chain compromise incident. It's positioned as the automatable counterpart to existing Threat-Intelligence detection events (SIEM/Slack/webhook alerts), PR-level compromised-package checks, and the Secure Registry, letting teams pull exact affected packages/versions on demand to drive incident response and cross-check against their SBOM or lockfiles.

StepSecuritySIEMSBOM

tj-actions/changed-files

Supply Chain, Threat Intel, DevSecOps· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 9 Jun 2026

opensourcemalware.comwriteup

Miasma Blight Reaches Microsoft: 73 Repos Disabled in 105 Seconds

Investigates GitHub's mass disabling of 73 Microsoft repositories across the Azure, Azure-Samples, microsoft, and MicrosoftDocs orgs within a 105-second window on June 5, all flagged for ToS violations, including the widely-used Azure/functions-action GitHub Action that broke CI pipelines globally. The author links the takedown to a re-compromise of the durabletask PyPI package (previously hit May 19 by TeamPCP via stolen GitHub Actions secrets) and to Miasma, a rebrand of TeamPCP's open-sourced Mini Shai-Hulud worm that Aikido and OX Security found had added Azure/GCP credential collectors and self-propagates by committing stolen secrets into attacker-created public repos, which is what likely triggered GitHub's automated abuse enforcement.

npmPyPIGitHub Actions+3

TeamPCPMiasmaMiasma worm+5

Supply Chain, DevSecOps, Threat Intel· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 6 Jun 2026

aws.amazon.comarticle

AWS Well-Architected: Software Supply Chain Security

AWS Security Blog post translating lessons from the Shai-Hulud, Chalk/Debug, tea.xyz, and axios npm supply chain attacks into concrete AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar recommendations for package consumers. It covers eliminating long-lived credentials (aws login, IAM Identity Center, OIDC), defense-in-depth artifact signing with AWS Signer and ECR managed signing, centralizing dependencies via AWS CodeArtifact package groups to block typosquatting, npm provenance attestations via Sigstore, and Amazon Inspector's behavioral detection of zero-day/sleeper malicious packages feeding into the OpenSSF Malicious Packages Repository (MAL-IDs).

AWS SignerAmazon ECRAWS CodeArtifact+3

CVE-2025-59144Shai-Huludchalk+5

Supply Chain, DevSecOps, Cloud & Infra· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 4 Jun 2026

github.comrepo

cicd-sensor: eBPF Runtime Security for CI/CD Pipelines

cicd-sensor is an open-source, eBPF-powered runtime security sensor ("EDR for CI/CD") for GitHub Actions and GitLab CI/CD that detects supply-chain attacks in-flight by watching process ancestry (e.g. credential access spawned from an npm install) and correlating signals across a job. It emits per-run logs, graphical reports, and build attestations routed to a self-hosted Manager and cloud sinks (S3, GCS, Azure Blob, Pub/Sub), positioning itself as the vendor-neutral open counterpart to commercial offerings like StepSecurity's Harden-Runner and GMO Flatt Security's Takumi Runner. Created by Hiroki Suezawa (@rung), author of the Common Threat Matrix for CI/CD Pipeline and an OWASP Top 10 CI/CD Security Risks contributor.

GitHub ActionsGitLab CIeBPF+3

Hiroki SuezawaCommon Threat Matrix for CI/CD PipelineOWASP Top 10 CI/CD Security Risks+2

DevSecOps, Supply Chain, Blue Team & Detection· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 4 Jun 2026

recyclebin.zipwriteup

Secret Scanning Dev Workstations with bagel + Fleet

Describes an open-source workflow combining bagel (a Go-based CLI secret scanner for developer home directories, from Boost Security) with Fleet/osquery to detect and enforce policy on clear-text secrets on macOS workstations. The author's PoC repo, fleebag, packages bagel as a scheduled LaunchAgent, provides an osquery policy query using Fleet's parse_json table to flag critical findings, and shows how to gate SSO login via Entra Conditional Access until secrets are remediated, framed as a response to infostealer/supply-chain worm campaigns like Shai-Hulud.

osquerymacOSMicrosoft Entra ID+1

Shai-HuludBoost Securityfleebag

DevSecOps, Blue Team & Detection· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 4 Jun 2026

stepsecurity.ioarticle

Dev Machine Guard Now Scans Extensions Across Every Modern IDE

StepSecurity's Dev Machine Guard now inventories and scores IDE extensions/plugins across eight IDE families (VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Antigravity, JetBrains IDEs, Android Studio, Eclipse-based IDEs, Xcode) on macOS, Windows, and Linux, not just VS Code. It computes a supply-chain Security Score per extension (adoption, publisher verification, license, known vulnerabilities, repo security posture) and flags known-compromised or typosquatted extensions, motivated by incidents like the October 2025 VS Code publisher token leaks, the s1ngularity Nx compromise, and the Shai-Hulud npm worm reaching extensions via transitive dependencies. The scanning engine is open source; enterprise mode feeds a fleet-wide dashboard for incident response and typosquat/compromise hunting.

VS CodeCursorWindsurf+2

Shai-Huluds1ngularityCISA

Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 2 Jun 2026

stepsecurity.iowriteup

Laravel-Lang Supply Chain Attack: Every Tag Across Multiple Composer Packages Rewritten to Steal CI Secrets

StepSecurity documents a supply-chain attack where a single actor compromised four Laravel-Lang Composer packages (laravel-lang/lang, http-statuses, actions, attributes) by rewriting every existing git tag to point at malicious commits that add src/helpers.php to Composer's eager autoload.files map. On any composer install/update or app boot, the payload fetches a stage-2 loader and an ELF binary from the C2 domain flipboxstudio.info, exfiltrates CI/runner secrets, then self-deletes and reparents to init to evade forensics. The team confirmed end-to-end exploitation by detonating laravel-lang/http-statuses v3.4.5 inside a Harden-Runner-monitored GitHub Actions runner, capturing the full process tree, network calls, and providing recovery/IOC guidance for affected users and maintainers.

ComposerPHPLaravel+3

Laravel-Langflipboxstudio.infoHarden-Runner

Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 2 Jun 2026

orca.securityarticle

Orca Security: Red Hat npm Packages Compromised in Supply-Chain Attack Spreading Credential-Stealing Worm

Orca describes the June 1, 2026 compromise of 32 npm packages under the @redhat-cloud-services scope, which came from a hijacked Red Hat employee GitHub account. The attacker injected malicious GitHub Actions workflows into three RedHatInsights repos and used OIDC tokens to publish backdoored versions with valid SLSA provenance. A preinstall hook runs a 4.2 MB obfuscated payload that sweeps CI, cloud, SSH, registry and .env credentials and self-propagates (the "Miasma" worm, attributed to TeamPCP or a copycat using Mini Shai-Hulud tooling). The post lists compromised versions and gives rotation and pinning guidance.

npmGitHub ActionsGitHub+2

MiasmaTeamPCPMini Shai-Hulud+4

Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Published and added 2 Jun 2026

aikido.devwriteup

Red Hat npm Packages Compromised to Spread a Credential-Stealing Worm

Aikido details a June 2026 compromise of 96 versions across 32 @redhat-cloud-services npm packages (116,991 weekly downloads) with "Miasma," a new variant of the TeamPCP-authored Mini Shai-Hulud credential-stealing worm whose source was open-sourced in May 2026. Attackers compromised a Red Hat employee's GitHub account to push malicious orphan commits containing a GitHub Actions workflow that abused OIDC id-token: write permissions to authenticate to npm's trusted publishing endpoint and republish backdoored packages; each package's preinstall script then ran a 4.2MB obfuscated payload that swept GitHub Actions, AWS, GCP, Azure, Vault, Kubernetes, npm/PyPI, SSH, Docker, GPG, and .env credentials. The piece also lays out the broader Mini Shai-Hulud campaign timeline (Bitwarden CLI, SAP, PyTorch Lightning, Mistral/TanStack, Microsoft DurableTask) and full IOC package/version list.

npmGitHub ActionsOIDC+2

TeamPCPMini Shai-HuludMiasma+3

Supply Chain, DevSecOps, Threat Intel· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 1 Jun 2026

github.comrepo

CVE Lite CLI

CVE Lite CLI is an OWASP Lab Project CLI that scans npm, pnpm, Yarn, and Bun lockfiles against OSV and the npm advisory API and outputs copy-and-run fix commands instead of raw CVE lists, with parent-aware guidance for transitive dependencies. Beyond core CVE scanning it audits override/resolution hygiene, flags maintenance risk (deprecated direct deps and version drag blocking fixes), warns when a suggested fix falls inside a package manager's release-cooldown window (referencing the chalk/debug npm compromise), and emits SARIF, SPDX/CycloneDX SBOMs, and EPSS-based priority tiers, plus a GitHub Action that opens batched fix PRs.

npmpnpmYarn+3

chalk

Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Published and added 31 May 2026

github.comrepo

affaan-m/agentshield

AgentShield is a CLI/GitHub Action security auditor that scans a Claude Code .claude/ directory for hardcoded secrets, overly permissive Bash/tool allow rules, hook injection, risky MCP server configs, and agent prompt-injection surfaces, producing an A–F graded report with 268 rules across 15 modules. It adds runtime-confidence classification (active-runtime vs. template/docs/plugin-cache) to reduce false positives, a three-agent Claude Opus red-team/blue-team/auditor pipeline for adversarial analysis, MCP supply-chain provenance checks, SOC2/PCI/ISO compliance control mapping, SARIF output for GitHub code scanning, and tamper-evident evidence packs for CI/audit handoff.

Claude CodeModel Context ProtocolGitHub Actions+3

Moltbook breach

AI Security, DevSecOps, Supply Chain· Added 30 May 2026

aikido.devarticle

What MDM can't protect on developer machines (and what to do about it)

Aikido Security argues that MDM (Jamf, Kandji, Intune) and EDR (CrowdStrike, SentinelOne) operate at the OS/application layer and are blind to the modern developer attack surface: npm/pip package installs with postinstall hooks, VS Code/IDE extensions, browser extensions, and MCP servers used by AI coding tools. It walks through the Nx Console extension compromise that exposed 3,800 GitHub repos, the Cyberhaven and Vercel/Context.ai OAuth-token browser-extension chain, the Mini Shai-Hulud npm worm, and the postmark-mcp malicious MCP server as evidence, then recommends a 48-hour minimum package age, disabling postinstall scripts by default, auditing extensions, and monitoring AI tool installs (pitching Aikido Device Protection/Safe Chain as the fix).

npmVS CodeModel Context Protocol+3

Mini Shai-HuludNx ConsoleAxios+4

Supply Chain, DevSecOps, AI Security· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 28 May 2026

youtu.bevideo

Hard Truths: You've Built a Security Stack. Have You Built a False Sense of Security? | Tanya Janca

Tanya Janca and Illumio's Raghu Nandakumara analyze the paradox of rising cybersecurity spending alongside escalating breaches, identifying tool sprawl and uncurated pipeline alerts as key contributors to developer friction. They explore the security risks of vibe coding and generative AI models trained on vulnerable open-source repositories, as well as the practical boundaries of frontier AI vulnerability research like Anthropic's Mythos. The conversation emphasizes establishing secure defaults, architectural consensus across engineering teams, and prioritizing prevention alongside containment over pure detection.

Claude: AI assistant evaluated for code generation quality and secret leakageGitHub Copilot: AI code completion tool evaluated for security guardrailsMythos: Frontier AI vulnerability analysis model by Anthropic functioning as agentic static code analysis+8

AnthropicIllumioISO 27001+5

AppSec, DevSecOps, AI Security· Added 4 Jun 2026, published 27 May 2026

osv.devtool

OSV

OSV.dev is an open, distributed vulnerability database using the OpenSSF OSV schema to describe vulnerabilities precisely mapped to package versions or commit hashes, aggregating sources like GitHub Security Advisories, PyPA, RustSec, and the Global Security Database. It provides a free query API (by commit hash or package version) and the OSV-Scanner CLI/GitHub Actions workflows to scan SBOMs, lockfiles, container images, and repositories for known vulnerabilities, with an experimental `fix` command for automated remediation.

OSVGitHub ActionsDocker+3

CVE-2022-27651

Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Added 3 Sep 2026, published 25 May 2026

socket.devwriteup

Socket: Malicious Postinstall Hook Compromises 8 PHP/Node Packages on Packagist

Socket's AI scanner found a coordinated supply chain campaign in which 8 Packagist (PHP/Composer) packages had their upstream GitHub repos modified to add a malicious postinstall hook — placed in package.json rather than composer.json — that downloads a binary (gvfsd-network) from an attacker GitHub Releases URL to /tmp/.sshd, disables TLS verification, and runs it in the background. The same payload was also found injected into GitHub Actions workflow files (as a step named "Dependency Cache Sync") in forked repos, and a GitHub code search for the attacker account parikhpreyash4 surfaced hundreds of additional references across Node.js projects. Highest real-world risk is concentrated in Laravel starter kits devdojo/wave (~6,400 stars) and devdojo/genesis (~9,100 Packagist installs), since starter-kit repos become the project root where npm install triggers the hook directly.

PackagistComposerPHP+3

parikhpreyash4

Supply Chain, DevSecOps· Published and added 23 May 2026

youtu.bevideo

Episode 3: Malicious Dependencies Aren't an Accident

Tanya Janca analyzes the deliberate nature of malicious dependency attacks, demonstrating how threat actors use typosquatting and copied documentation to quietly exfiltrate cloud credentials. She outlines a practical four-step defense strategy to add intentional workflow friction, enforce pull request reviews, and validate AI-suggested packages.

Maze: AI-agent vulnerability investigation and remediation prioritization platformAWSGitHub

Tanya Janca (SheHacksPurple)DevSec StationMaze

Supply Chain, DevSecOps, AppSec· Added 4 Jun 2026, published 22 May 2026

socket.devarticle

Socket: Mini Shai-Hulud

Socket reports that npm invalidated all granular access tokens with write access that bypass 2FA after a fresh Mini Shai-Hulud wave hijacked the maintainer account "atool" and pushed 639 malicious versions across 323 packages in the @antv ecosystem, including echarts-for-react. The piece traces the broader campaign (attributed to TeamPCP, 1,055 compromised versions across npm/PyPI/Composer) through the TanStack pwn-request/OIDC-memory-extraction compromise and the resulting GitHub internal repo breach via Nx Console, and covers npm's new opt-in staged-publishing feature (npm stage publish/approve) that adds an MFA-gated human approval step before releases go live.

npmOIDCGitHub Actions+2

Mini Shai-HuludTeamPCPatool+8

Supply Chain, DevSecOps, Identity & Access· Published and added 22 May 2026

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